POLIO PLUS VIDEO MAGAZINE

Bill Gates tells the Rotary International Assembly about the $255 million that the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation are giving to Rotary International as a challenge grant.

Eradicating Polio - What it takes

During National and Subnational Immunization Days, volunteers help immunize millions of children every year with the oral polio vaccine. In this video, we follow the vaccine from factory to immunization booth. Find out what it takes to get a drop of vaccine in every child's mouth.

An Oscar Nomination for a short film about Polio

A short documentary film, The Final Inch , received an Academy Award nomination on 22 January for its intimate look at the massive mission to rid the world of the crippling disease.

Nominated in the documentary short subject category, The Final Inch , a 38-minute film commissioned by the philanthropic division of Google, chronicles the challenges health organizations and governments face during the final stages of polio eradication.

Director and producer Irene Taylor Brodsky captured workers immunizing children in the poorest slums of India and Pakistan in 2007. In several scenes Rotarians were filmed working during a National Immunization Day on 22 April. Led by M.S. Jain, past governor of District 3100, NID volunteers administer polio vaccination drops to children in Meerut Samrat, Uttar Pradesh, India.

A Polio free world: Rotary, Humanity in Motion

A brief explanation of Rotary's goal which was first expressed in 1985

Immunizing Children Against Polio: Rotary International

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