VIMSIA Interact Club delivered gifts to the students at Jane E. Tuitt Elementary School. At the school Santa gave each student a gift bag containing with 3-5 gifts from their wish list. The Interact Club ended the day by delivering approximately 1000 books to The Family Connection.

By Arnold R. Grahl  
Rotary News -- 21 December 2012

 

The year got off to an exciting start in January when India marked a year without a new case of polio. By February, the World Health Organization had removed India from the list of endemic countries.

Here’s a look back at this and other memorable Rotary events of 2012.

1. India polio free

After going an entire year without a new reported case of polio, India was removed from the list of polio-endemic countries by the World Health Organization (WHO). Ghulam Nabi Azad, India's minister of Health and Family Welfare, made the announcement at the Polio Summit 2012 in New Delhi on 25 February.

The news was a huge boost to the morale of Rotarians, who have been laboring to eradicate the crippling disease since 1985. Only three countries -- Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan -- remain on the polio-endemic list. Read More