Continuing Partnership – Wheels of Hope

The Polio Survivors Rotary Action Group has an ongoing partnership with Wheels of Hope. Wheels of Hope is a unique 501 (c) 3 international leadership project of the Rotary Club of Traverse City, Michigan, and a partnership agreement with The Naraguta Rotary Club located in Jos, Nigeria. This group is actively seeking contributions to give […]

Many thanks to these frontline workers

Rotary Gives Awards To 107 Polio Frontline Workers — Leadership Nigeria Newspapers Many thanks to these frontline workers, the foot soldiers working to create a polio-free world. Special thanks to the polio survivors raising their voices, working to ensure no child will have to endure the crippling effects of the poliovirus they know so well. […]

This Is How Nigeria Beat Polio | TIME

A quarter-century campaign brings the world tantalizingly close to eradicating a disease It’s easy not to notice a negative. A house burns down on your block and it’s all you can talk about. But a house doesn’t burn down? Where’s the news? Still, absence can be the stuff of headlines, and that fact has rarely […]

Nigeria to eradicate polio totally in 2017 – FGPress Examiner

Though hitting the milestone on Friday, it will take two years of monitoring before Nigeria, the last African polio-endemic country, can be certified as free of the virus, Melissa Corkum, chief Nigeria polio spokeswoman at the United Nations Children’s Fund, said in an interview from the nation’s capital, Abuja. The Executive Director of the National […]

Nigeria celebrates one year with no reported cases of polio – The Globe and Mail

Once stigmatized as the world’s polio epicentre, Nigeria on Friday celebrates its first year with no reported case of the crippling disease, having overcome obstacles ranging from Islamic extremists who assassinated vaccinators to rumours the vaccine was a plot to sterilize Muslims. Just 20 years ago, this West African nation was recording 1,000 polio cases […]

Wheels of Hope has new video

One of PSA’s partners has created a new video highlighting what wheelchairs and mobility devices can mean for polio survivors in Nigeria.  Please share this video with your contacts.  If you have any questions or comments, feel free to post them to this thread. [vimeo http://vimeo.com/50137664]

Kano Skate Soccer team project

The Kano Polio Victims Trust Association of Kano, Nigeria supports two soccer teams made up of polio survivors.  The Polio Survivors RAG purchased soccer uniforms for these teams in 2008.  These were the first uniforms ever owned by team members.  The joy and pride is evident in the photos shown.  They are a remarkable group […]

PSA Project #4: Bicycle Wheelchairs, Equipment and Truck

This project is similar to project #3 in that it includes the purchase of more equipment for the sustainability of the wheelchair shop operated by the Handicapped Advocacy and Rehabilitation Center (HARC) in Jos, Nigeria.  This project will cover the cost of construction of 600 bicycle wheelchairs. 

PSA Project #3: Bicycle Wheelchairs and Equipment for Bicycle Wheelchair Shop

This project will purchase the equipment and supplies needed to construct 500 wheelchairs for polio survivors in the polio endemic northern Nigerian states of Adamaw, Bauchi, Borno, Gomba, Kano, Kaduna, Katsina, Taraba, Nassarawa, Plateau, Jigawa, Yobe, and parts of Kogi.  The wheelchairs will give the polio survivors mobility, as a wheelchair is a first step […]