POLIOPLUS IN ACTION JANUARY 2008

POLIOPLUS IN ACTION - JANUARY 2008

Jenny Horton has forwarded the following message for inclusion on our website (Thank you Jenny for keeping us posted):

Dear Eastern Mediterranean Regional PolioPlus Committee members:

Please find hereunder the link for the January PolioPlus in Action e-newsletter. Some highlights include:

Features and Internet links from the worldwide announcement that was made about the US$100 million challenge grant to The Rotary Foundation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Information on sustaining motivation for polio eradication.

Polio Plus in Action for January 2008

The PolioPlus Partners program expects to receive over US$5 million in project requests in 2007-08. The January PolioPlus Partners Open Projects List (OPL) contains five polio eradication projects in need of a total of US$1,293,128. Please use the OPL as a resource to communicate the continued, urgent, and significant needs of PolioPlus Partners. In an effort to keep the download size of this e-mail to a minimum, please click on the following Web link to download the December OPL: http://www.rotary.org/RIdocuments/en_pdf/ppp_openprojects.pdf.

Please forward this e-mail to fellow Rotarians.

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PolioPlus Division
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
1560 Sherman Avenue
Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Phone: 847.866.3305
Fax: 847.866.0269