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Welcome
To The Home Page
For The Ethiopia National Immunization Day (NID) project
by Rotary District 5030
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Latest Updates (Sep 13, 2009)---- |
- The 2009 Ethiopia NID
trip information is now available on the 2009 trip info page.
- The Canadian Wheelchair Foundation is working with the Ethiopia NID trip this year to distribute wheelchairs on the trip and have them personally delivered by Rotarians to those already afflicted with polio. The 2009 Trip info page has more details.
- Photos from the 2006 and 2008 trips have been posted. Click here to go to the photo pages. (If you have more photos you would like posted, e-mail them to Kevin Talbot, the webmaster, for posting.)
- Many new links about the Cheshire Home and Fistula Hospital in Addis Ababa have been added. The 2008 travelers visited both of these amazing facilities.
Go to the 2009 Trip Info page
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- Rotary International and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation form
a partnership to support Rotary International's #1 goal of a
Polio-Free world. The $100 million grant from The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest single grant ever given to a volunteer
service organization.
Read the press release
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- Penny LeGate of KIRO-TV has traveled to Ethiopia every year since 2002.
She's created a "blog" on the KIRO-TV website with lots of interesting information about her trips to Ethiopia. It also has
some great video clips
from her trips.
Visit Penny's blog
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- Seattle
Rotarian Ezra Teshome honored in November 2005
as one
of nine "Heros Of Global Health"
at TIME Magazine's Global Health Summit
in
New York
Read the press release
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In October 2002 a group of more than 65 Rotarians from Seattle paid their own way to travel about halfway around the world to Ethiopia. There they worked for a week to support the local health workers in the administration of oral polio vaccine and vitamin A during the National Immunization Days. Since that time, many more Rotarians have followed in their footsteps, bringing the vaccine, hope, and love to thousands of Ethiopian children.
Please navigate this website by following the links to the left. We hope it will help to inform you and possibly inspire you to consider joining us on our next NID trip to Ethiopia.
If you would like to schedule a presentation on the polio eradication effort for your local Rotary Club, please contact Jan Nutting to arrange for a speaker.
Larger and higher quality versions of the photos used on this website may be obtained by contacting Kevin Talbot, the webmaster. Many of these can be downloaded on the Links & Downloads page.
We hope this site will inspire you to consider traveling with us to Ethiopia in the fall of 2009. It truly is the trip of a lifetime.
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