POLIO FREE INDIA

 

On behalf of Rotary International General Secretary John Hewko, we forward the following.

Dear Senior Leaders:

I just wanted to share a story that recently was aired on CNN on polio where Rotary is given significant coverage.

 "India beats the odds, beats polio," has now aired on CNN International (200 million subscribers around the world) and posted on CNN.com (22 million unique visitors each month). 

The feature story was also selected to be posted (along with the photo) on CNN's Facebook page (www.facebook.com/cnn, 10 million fans) and to CNN's Twitter feed (https://twitter.com/cnn, 12 million followers). Rotary’s general and “End Polio Now” Facebook and Twitter feeds have also re-posted and shared.

Both the video (by Mumbai-based CNN International correspondent Mallika Kapur) and the online feature showcase Rotary and our National PolioPlus Chair Deepak Kapur, who was interviewed. 

Rotary International is credited as "the organization that led the effort to rid India of polio," which the video calls "one of the biggest global health achievements of recent times, and a triumph for India's government and partners that fought the disease." 

You can see and hear the feature at: http://cnn.it/Q0Tjxh. 

Full text also follows below.  Please feel free to share.

All the best.

John Hewko