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27 Feb 2010 - BBC News - Gloucester Cathedral End Polio Now projection

23 Feb 2010 - Rotary Day!

BBC News and BBC Radio 5 Live interviews with Rotarian Gautam Lewis are now available on the main Thanks for Life page.

12 Feb 2010 - District and Club blog site added

Click here to access the District and Club blog site.

10 Jan 2010 - Thanks for Life / End Polio Now video added to youtube  

The final push to end polio in India. Documentary, fronted by Konnie Huq (BBC and Blue Peter presenter), giving the background to Rotary's campaign to rid the world of polio and describing the November 2009 sub national immunisation days in India at which 86 Rotarians from RIBI helped Indian volunteers to vaccinate 67 million children in just 2 days.  Click here for part 1 and here for part 2. 

20 Dec 2009 - Channel M, Rotarian Dr Keith Paver video interview on the recent Indian National Immunisation Day

Click here to view the video interview of Rotarian Dr Keith Paver talking on Channel M about the November 2009 trip by Rotarians from RIBI to India to assist in the National Immunisation Day (4 minute video).

27 Nov 2009 - The Guardian, 3 page article, "The final push to end polio in India"

"In a school courtyard in Lucknow on a dusty Sunday afternoon, the final push in a heroic campaign to drive a crippling disease from the planet is under way."

"Beside a major traffic junction, the clamour of car horns assaulting the ears, a cluster of middle-aged Britons in canary-yellow polo shirts bob about, waving and shouting at families in rickshaws with young children. In their hands they have droppers containing vaccine and pens to mark the little finger of the left hand of every immunised child. These are some of a group of 86 Rotarians from all over the UK who have flown in to help with the latest mass immunisation day in India's two remaining endemic states - Uttar Pradesh, of which Lucknow is the capital, and Bihar - as well as Delhi, where children are at risk from migration from both areas."

22 Nov 2009 - BBC News covers RIBI and the National Immunisation Day in India

BBC News website article (including 2 minute video)

Konnie Huq (Blue Peter presenter) "I joined 86 British Rotarians on a trip to India to see Rotary's Thanks for Life/End Polio Now campaign in action as more than 65 million children in two northern Indian states under the age of five were to be targeted for immunisation against polio in just two days."

01 Nov 2009 - Tesco agrees RIBI Thanks for Life / End Polio Now collection on 27 February 2010

Tesco has confirmed that they will allow Rotary Clubs in RIBI to collect for Thanks for Life on Sat 27th Feb at 377 of their stores. The General Council (the 29 RIBI District Governors) has agreed that we will accept the challenge from Tesco to man the 377 stores.