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The Rotary Foundation is a non profit corporation
providing worldwide humanitarian grants to needy peoples and worthy
projects, and educational awards for international awards for for
international exchanges of university scholars and teachers, and
business and professional people. The objective of the Rotary
Foundation is to further understanding and friendly relationship
relations among the world's peoples by funding educational and
charitable programmes.
The Foundation is supported by
voluntary contributions from Rotary clubs, Rotarians and others.
Further gifts, bequests etc. are greatly needed to meet the
continuing and expanding needs of the Foundation's programmes.
Polio Plus
is a Foundation programme that enacts Rotary's pledge to promote and
assist polio immunizations of all children world wide no later than
Rotary's 100th anniversary in 2005. The programme provides all the
polio vaccine necessary for for up to five consecutive years for any
approved immunization programme; and provides, upon invitation, a
team of experts to help plan and implement National Immunization
Days against polio. A worldwide campaign to fund the programme
raised almost US$230 million. The last case of polio in the Western
hemisphere occurred in 1992. Rotary has been known to immunize some
90 million children in a single day.
Health,
Hunger, and Humanity (3-H) is a programme of the Rotary
Foundation which funds large scale, usually one-to-five year
humanitarian projects providing benefits of a long-term self-help
nature by improving health, alleviating hunger and enhancing human
and social development. The 3-H programme also makes arrangements
and pays freight cost for donated vaccines, and provides travel and
living expenses for expert volunteers in support of humanitarian
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