Over the past 25 years, literacy in Guatemala has doubled 📚💛
Thank you @GabyMorenoMusic for celebrating 25 years of the Guatemala Literacy Project with us yesterday! Through our partnership with Cooperative For Education this program has helped over 278,000 students
⭕ Increasing health care services for the world’s most vulnerable breaks a systemic barrier that keeps people in extreme poverty. Thank you @Rotary for committing $150M to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative at #GlobalCitizenFestival 👏
"#Rotary is committed to helping end poverty globally and to protecting the planet by pledging $97 million dollars in grant funding during 2022 for sustainable, member-led projects."
- @JenJonesRotary at #GlobalCitizenLive
700M+ people face poverty daily — but we can change this. ⭕️Thank you @Rotary for your $98M commitments supporting sustainable projects, tackling poverty through education, health, community development, peace, WASSH, and environment around the world! #GlobalCitizenLive
Pakistan reported no case of polio in the past six months which has never happened before.
This is the closest it has come to achieving the goal of polio eradication and has also shown consistent decline in the number of positive environmental samples.
The persistence of countless Rotarians gives me hope that we can achieve a polio-free world. As they close the #Rotary21 Convention, I'd like to thank @Rotary for the continued partnership to #endpolio. https://t.co/sZ4dRiuiXk
1/2 Good news on polio front.
For first time all sites undertaking environmental
testing for wild poliovirus in Pakistan & in Afghanistan near the border have concurrently shown ZERO presence of the wild polio virus. Plus we’ve also gone 14 weeks without a wild poliovirus case
Wild polio cases for 2021 as of May 5, 2021 is 2. There was 1 in Pakistan and 1 in Afghanistan.
Wild polio cases in 2020 were 140. There were 84 in Pakistan and 56 in Afghanistan.
Wild polio cases in 2019 were 176. There were 147 in Pakistan and 29 in Afghanistan.
It's no surprise that misinformation about vaccines thrives on social media. A Facebook study of that problem, as reported by The Washington Post, contained some remarkable elements: For instance, half of all vaccine-hesitant content came from just 111 FB users out of 2.8b users.