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If your school or college would like to do something on Thanks for Life Day - Tuesday 23 February 2010 - the day when communities and Rotary Clubs around the UK and Ireland will be concentrating on End Polio Now awareness raising, please get in touch with your local Rotary Club. Click here to search for the club nearest your town.
What can your local Rotary Club help you with?
- Purple Pinkie - a polio event to run in school or college
- Posters and leaflets about polio
- Background information and talks
- A great 12 minute DVD on polio eradication presented by Konnie Huq (Blue Peter) *Now also available on youtube*
- and lots more!
Thanks for Life / End Polio Now video now available on youtube. (12 minutes)
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.
If you would like a DVD of the video please contact your local Rotary club. Click here to search for the club nearest your town.
A short Powerpoint presentation called 'This is polio' can be found here.
Many of the materials within the Thanks for Life section of the Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI) website are suitable for all ranges - have a look around and use what you want!
Rotarian Guru Guruswamy of the Rotary Club of Great Missenden (b.a.guruswamy@btinternet.com) has put together a webpage for schools which gives useful background to polio and polio eradication and concentrates on the Rotary Clubs in Great Britain & Ireland 'Thanks for Life' Rotary Day, 23 Feb 2010.
The Rotary contact details on Guru's site are local to his own geographical area but if you would like to get in touch with your own local Rotary club click here and search for your closest town. This will give you details of your nearest club - they would welcome a call from you.
Please use this form to contact us with any questions, requests or comments relating to the Rotary Thanks for Life / End Polio Now project
