<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Rogers Bob</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:mailservice@directory-online.com">mailservice@directory-online.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Oct 4, 2019 at 10:04 AM<br>Subject: Rotary - A special message on Polio<br>To: <<a href="mailto:jghopper@gmail.com">jghopper@gmail.com</a>><br></div><br><br>
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Dear Gary,<br>
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This email is being sent to all Rotarians in District 5130, of which you are one.<br>
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For many years PolioPlus Chair for our District, Larry Myers, has been sending current Presidents a monthly Polio Newsletter, giving them updates on our progress towards a Polio free world.<br>
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I thought this month's newsletter is especially poignent and one that should be shared by every Rotarian in our District. It outlines the challenges facing us and our response to those challlenges. So I urge you to please take a few minutes from your busy day to read this. <br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Bob Rogers<br>
PolioPlus Co-Chair<br>
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<div><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="display:inline"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:tahoma"><span style="background-color:#f5f5f5"><b>From:</b> <a rel="noreferrer" title="ldmyers@pacific.net" href="https://ismyrotaryclub.com/Click/?_uid=800361512&_ctid=1460113&redirect=" target="_blank">Larry Myers</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="display:inline"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:tahoma"><span style="background-color:#f5f5f5"><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, September 21, 2019 12:51 PMD<b>To</b><b>:</b> <a rel="noreferrer" title="ldmyers@pacific.net" href="https://ismyrotaryclub.com/Click/?_uid=800361512&_ctid=1460113&redirect=" target="_blank">Larry Myers</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:small"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><span style="display:inline"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="font-stretch:normal"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:tahoma"><span style="background-color:#f5f5f5"><b>Subject:</b> PolioPlusReport.pdf</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><font size="4"><b>DISTRICT 5130 PRESIDENT</b></font></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Attached is the latest financials for POLIO PLUS FUNDRAISING for the first quarter of your year of service as President. It details a total of $ 33,114, however very few clubs have transmitted funds in our first quarter. I know many of you have been participating in this – the # 1 goal of our Rotary Foundation – since the inception of our worldwide immunization program which has saved millions upon millions of children’s lives since its inception in 1988. But today we are at a critical point in our immunization campaign.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Yes, the Gates Foundation continues to double each Rotarian's contribution to Polio Plus making each $ 1 become $3.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Yes, we continue to sponsor year around immunization campaigns with the financial assistance of our many global partners in areas who are in constant strife including: Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nigeria, Lake Chad Region, Benin, Ghana, DR Congo along with extensive monitoring and surveillance </font></b><b><font size="4">in Angola, Central African Republic, Horn of Africa, Papua New Guinea, Mozambique, Indonesia, Myanmar & now the Philippines.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Yes, continued conflicts in many targeted areas continue to place the lives of our immunizers (MANY OF WHOM ARE WOMEN) at risk.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4"><i><u>And yes cases globally have increased in 2019.</u></i></font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">So let start with the increased cases YTD – 82 (globally) vs 25 IN 2018 YTD.</font></b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Includes 16 YTD in Afghanistan vs 18 YTD in 2018. Includes 66 YTD in Pakistan vs 12 YTD in 2018.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">WHY is this happening in Pakistan? The increase is in the southern most regions of Khyber starting in early July. Those of you more senior Rotarians might remember that our outbreaks here in the US happened in our summer months – same as is happening in Pakistan. Monitoring has indicated that environmental samples increased positive samples in the region of outbreaks. That is normally an indicator of an increased # of under-immunized children. </font></b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">However in late July, over 3 1/4 MILLION CHILDREN were immunized in those regions. Also 1.8 MILLION CHILDREN were immunized in 387 permanent transit centers thus vaccinating children on the move. We also know that prior to the outbreak in Pakistan that NID’s (National Immunization Days) were temporarily suspended due to a local disinformation campaign that led to violence.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Also remember the outbreak a few years ago in the Chad Lakes Region due to Boko Horam terrorism against the population in that area of Nigeria. We overcame that and we will overcome this outbreak with the help of our global partners.m</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">The second potentially serious lapse is in the Philippines. We have seen an outbreak of cVDPV2 (Circulating Vaccine Derived Polio Virus 2) along with positive environmental samples detected in sewer samples in a major city. This means that an increased number of children are under-immunized children. Some of you might remember that we sponsored immunizations in the Philippines as our first test way back in the 70’s. Mat Caparas, soon to be an R.I. President was the key note speaker at a District 513 Rotary Foundation fundraiser way back in 1984 which I chaired as the DG that year. He and Nita spoke to an audience of 400+ Rotarians including Friends of Rotary that night and with tears in their eyes they talked about their daughter who died at a young age of Bulbar Polio at the same time thanking Rotary for saving children’s lives by sponsoring an immunization campaigns to eradicate polio. There was not a dry eye in the audience that night.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">This last month Rotary signed a Memo of Understanding with the Philippine government to begin a rapid response immunization campaign starting this month to vaccinate every child under the age of 5 in the affected districts. </font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">So what can you do? First continue to challenge yourself and your Rotarians to continue to donate.</font></b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Sponsor a program to celebrate WORLD POLIO DAY on or around October 24. Last year Rotarians hosted more than 4000 World Polio Day events in countries. RI has a wealth of information that will help you including a WPD Toolkit and others helps available at the RI Polio Plus site. </font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Continue to sponsor your yearly fundraising events for the eradication of polio. Ask PDG Bob Rogers to speak at your meetings. Sponsor Bob and his cyclists at the Tucson event in November.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Not sure what more I can say besides continue to challenge your club members to donate to this LIFE CHANGING, LIFE SAVING PROGRAM to SAVE CHILDREN’S LIVES.</font></b></span></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">We made a commitment to fathers & mothers around the world in 1988 that some day, thanks to Rotary, Rotarians and now our Global Partners, there will be a morning that a parent will never have to fear their son or daughter waking up one morning paralyzed knowing their life will be shortened by polio. </font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Thank you for your past support and your continued efforts to improve the local community you serve along with our world community including POLIO PLUS.</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Yours in Rotary Service</font></b></span></span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-family:Calibri"><b><font size="4">Larry D. Myers, PDG, POLIO PLUS CO CHAIR</font></b></span></span></div>
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