Rotary gets $100 million for polio fight
- Publication
- Wilmette Life, 29 Nov 2007, p. 26
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- Media Type
- Newspaper
- Item Type
- Articles
- Notes
- Evanston-based Rotary International is working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to raise money for the gloal campaign to eradicate polio. The Rotary Foundation received a $100 million Gates Foundation grant, which Rotary will raise funds to match over three years. Rotary will spend the initial $100 million within one year in direct support of immunization activities carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative sponsored by the World Health Organization.
- Date of Publication
- 29 Nov 2007
- Subject(s)
- Corporate Name(s)
- Rotary Club
- Local identifier
- Wilmette.News.292793
- Language of Item
- English
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