On Wednesday, Mr. Perlman, now 64, performed with the New York Philharmonic in a benefit concert for the service organization Rotary International, which campaigns to eradicate the disease worldwide.
The service organization Rotary International said it would give Unicef and the World Health Organization $500,000 total for the campaign, set to begin Friday in Pointe Noire, a coastal city where about 100 people have died in an outbreak that appears to have an unusually high mortality rate.
John Hewko is general secretary of the humanitarian organization Rotary International.
Rotary/civc organizations: Rotary International is always looking for great members, speakers, and people who want to contribute.
The organization was Rotary District 7230, not Rotary Club 7230.
"Rotary and other service organizations do a tremendous amount of service in local communities, and they're not exempt".
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative was joined by UNICEF, Rotary International, and other organizations, and by 2000 the number of new cases of paralytic polio had been reduced from more than 250,000 per year to approximately 1,000 2,000.
Mr. Adams pointed out to Mr. Palau that service organizations like Rotary and Kiwanis assisted in city programs with the understanding that they would not recruit new members in the process.
But since June, cases have fallen to zero thanks to an unprecedented year-long immunization effort backed by UNICEF, WHO, Rotary International and other organizations.
Global health organizations recognize Rotary International's unprecedented role in the fight to end polio worldwide GENEVA/NEW YORK/ATLANTA, 21 June 2005 – On the occasion of Rotary International's 100th anniversary, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative today paid tribute to the humanitarian service organization's commitment to ending polio worldwide.
