What's new on this site? *23 Feb*

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23 February - Rotary Day! - BBC News and BBC Radio 5 Live interviews with Rotarian Gautam Lewis are now available on the main Thanks for Life page.

20 February - New PowerPoint End Polio Now presentation (suitable for schools or public display) added as a related document to the main Thanks for Life page (thanks to Rotary Club of Stevenage Grange). 

19 February - Polio Stories and Poems page added.

12 February - District and Club blog site added.  Click here to access the site.  

25 January - Are you aiming big for Rotary Day?

District 1150 (South Wales) is taking Rotary Day to the Welsh Assembly, the Senedd, on 23 February.  Details on the For Rotarians page.

12 January 2010 - Tesco and Sainsbury's collection information page added as subpage to the For Rotarians page.  

10 January 2010 - Thanks for Life / End Polio Now video added to youtube and linked from various pages of the Thanks for Life website.  

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. 

10 January 2010 - Additional resources (see below) added to the For Rotarians page as linked documents

• A Window of Opportunity newsletter full of ideas on how best to set up a Window of Opportunity display
  
• A collection tin / bucket label or wrapper that should prove useful when collecting at events - especially the supermarket days.
  
• A briefing document for School Councils produced by Russell Ball, (Rotary Club of Stevenage Grange) retired Secondary School Head.  Can be edited to a club's own requirements.

22 December 2009 - For Businesses and For Schools webpages updated with details of the websites created by Rotarian Guru Guruswamy (Rotary Club of Great Missenden) aimed at giving businesses and schools appropriate background information on polio and the Thanks for Life / Rotary Day project.

22 December 2009 - Contact form and link to a Rotary Club search page added to the For Businesses webpage.

19 December 2009 - mounted Thanks for Life posters (Rotary Club of Stevenage Grange) and Baxterbear added to the End Polio Now Merchandise page.

16 December 2009 - new posters ("Remember this? It's called Polio", Archbishop Desmond Tutu "We are THIS CLOSE to ending Polio") and editable school certificate added to main poster and logo download page.  

16 December 2009 - End Polio Now Merchandise page added to the For Rotarians page.  Contains links to Rotary Club of Guernsey merchandise and the End Polio Now stickers produced by the Rotary Club of Exmouth.

16 December 2009 - Links to articles written by Guardian journalist Peter Preston, a polio sufferer, added to Living with Polio page.

30 November 2009 - Posters page added to the For Rotarians page.

29 November 2009 - Breaking News page added - to include media coverage and other PR / publicity news.  

29 November 2009 - Frequently Asked Questions section added to the Contact Us page.  Page renamed to Frequently Asked Questions and Contact Us.

29 November 2009 - Advertising grant forms, photo grant forms and grant criteria documents added as links to the For Rotarians page. 

24 November 2009 - High resolution Purple Pinkies photo and District 1240 Purple Pinkie Newsletter added as related documents (right hand side of the page) on the Purple Pinkie page within the For Rotarians section.

23 November 2009 - Thanks for Life November Newsletter added as a related document on the For Rotarians page 

04 November 2009 - Thanks for Life "Thank you" certificate for schools added as a downloadable and editable document to the For Rotarians page 

03 November 2009 - Interactive map of progress in Polio Eradication since 1988 added to the Home Page

03 November 2009 - Indian cricketer B S Chandresekar.  A polio survivor's story added to the Living with Polio page

13 October 2009 - World Polio Day (24 October) - page added  

03 September 2009 - information on safe inks for Purple Pinkie Days added to the Purple Pinkie page within the For Rotarians section.

03 September 2009 - Famous people who have had polio - links added to the Living with Polio page

02 September 2009 - updated leaflets and a link to the full set of logos, leaflets and posters added to the Logos and Leaflets page within the For Rotarians section

16 August 2009 - Europe Declared Free of Polio page added   

16 August 2009 - Past RI President Frank Devlyn's Amigos' End Polio Now website added as link on Thanks for Life home page.

Newly built, and expanding, Rotary End Polio Now website with links to large amounts of useful information and resources. Designed by Past RI president Frank Devlyn's DG team 'The Amigos'

12 August 2009 - Template Press Releases subpage added to For Rotarians page

11 August 2009 - Polio and other Rotary Videos page added   

30 July 2009 - 100 Ways to Celebrate Rotary added to For Rotarians page

100 ways to celebrate Rotary and Rotary Day on 23 February, courtesy of District 1010

26 July 2009 - Post Polio Syndrome page added  

Tens of thousands of people who survived the epidemics of the first half of the 20th Century are still living in the UK.  Years later, some are now experiencing new polio-related symptoms for which they need to seek help. These may result from the original weakness and orthopaedic problems or may be Post Polio Syndrome - a neurological condition which can occur in people who have had polio.

25 July 2009 - Polio in the UK and Ireland page added

Links to the Pathe News library of polio-related films from the 1940s onwards, including items on polio outbreaks in Coventry and Hull.

25 July 2009 - 48 years with an iron lung article added to Living with Polio page

BBC online news article from 2003 about John Prestwich MBE from Hertfordshire :

"John, paralysed from the chin down, is 64 - and holds the dubious distinction of being the longest surviving beneficiary of iron lung technology.  He has not taken a breath for himself since he was struck down with polio at the age of 17"

(John died in 2006 and a link to his life story can also be found on the page)