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Editors:- PDG Bharat M. Dholakia, PP Rtn. L.V.Vora

Rotary International president honored with royal award

Rotary International President William B. Boyd was recently appointed a Companion of the Queen’s Service Order by Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II. The New Zealand state award, given to citizens who have served as valuable volunteers to the community, is among only 30 granted each year. Read more about the honor here

Rotary volunteers battle polio in remaining strongholds

Nearly 100 Rotary members from the United States and Europe traveled to India and Nigeria in January and February to help immunize children against polio. The crippling and potentially fatal disease still threatens children in parts of Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Nigeria and India are the major strongholds of polio and among just four countries (including Pakistan and Afghanistan) where the virus continues to circulate. Read more about Rotary’s fight against polio here

Rotary seeks candidates for world peace fellowships

Rotary World Peace Fellowships train professionals in conflict resolution and mediation strategies to foster policies and create settings that ensure peace worldwide. Rotary welcomes midcareer professionals in the international community as candidates for the 2008-10 master’s-level degree program. For more information,

Rotarian makes a difference in Afghanistan

Rotary member Fary Moini, who serves as a Rotary International representative to the US National Commission for UNESCO, was profiled in February in the NBC Nightly News segment “Making a Difference” for her efforts to build a school in Afghanistan. Watch the full story here

Rotary clubs celebrate World Water Day

Rotary clubs will commemorate World Water Day March 22 by initiating community discussions and implementing a wide range of projects to give communities access to safe drinking water. Read about ongoing water projects in Sudan and the Dominican Republic

Former Rotary World Peace Fellow builds peace in Iraq

Former Rotary World Peace Fellow Miho Kishitani of Japan now manages reconstruction programs in Iraq. Through her position at Peace Winds Japan, an NGO focused on aiding people devastated by war, poverty or natural disasters, Kishitani places special emphasis on education, social care and health. Learn more about Kish

Rotary Scholar documents struggle of child land-mine survivors

While studying filmmaking in Spain last year, American Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar Alissa Nicole Creamer met two Angolan children who were land mine victims. While visiting nearly every day at the hospital where they had received Rotary-funded surgery, Creamer created a documentary about their experiences. Read more

Volunteers walk across South Africa during AIDS hike

A team of Rotary-sponsored students, including four Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial Scholars, raised $12,000 by hiking 2,010 kilometers (1,249 miles) across South Africa in December. The 20-day hike from Johannesburg to Cape Town raised funds to help AIDS orphans and raised awareness of the devastating effects of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Read more about the team and view their photos here.

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It is good to know that WHO is insisting upon to consider all other options including not giving up on eradication which is its most famous and otherwise demanding Program.Yes, India is a prone category country and in order to remove the fear of this deadly disease we have to evolve a different kind of social strategy looking to the peculiar Inter community relations and social and cultural behaviour of the people persists in India since the colonial rule.It is not difficult because issues and areas which otherwise fall under the Bimaroo category of the Indian Union are already demarcated and discussed. Perhaps, apart from other moves already attempted at the administarative and medical fronts we should start a teaching-learning program for the people at their ward and house level through multi media programs and intervention of social and religious leaders much before the actual date of vaccination.The strategy for such unreached categories should be discussed and worked out at the District and zone level because India culturally is a diverse country.