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 […]
Survey of Rotarian Polio Survivors
The number one question we are asked is “How many Rotarians are polio survivors?” We are asking each club across the world to let us know how many survivors are in their club. Please click here to fill out this quick form. We will tally the results and add a map to our site showing […]
PSA groups support End Polio Now
PSA is starting a new project. As announced in our November 2013 newsletter, we want all our members worldwide to participate in creating a public awareness project that would involve Rotary Clubs working with existing Post-Polio support groups or polio survivors. We want you to make a presentation of the End Polio Now pins to […]
Remembering Jack Campbell, a founding father of Rotary Polio Survivors Action Group
An “Escondido CA North County Times” headline on Thursday July 11 2012 read: Noted philanthropist Jack Campbell dead at 69 He will live in the hearts and minds of those privileged to know him as long as they, too, will live. We knew him as an early pillar of the Rotary Polio Survivors Action Group […]
Rotary clubs to host polio awareness dinner
What a great idea to start something like this in your community! He was the first of 27 in Midland to catch polio in the year 1948. Donald DeVore said he had spent the summer with his father in Lorenzo and a lot of time in swimming pools while there. That’s where he believes he […]
Polio survivor is devoted to immunizing and educating
By Christina Macone-Greene SPECIAL TO THE UNION-TRIBUNE Sunday, April 11, 2010 at 12:02 a.m. ESCONDIDO— Jack Campbell didn’t celebrate his sixth birthday with a party like most kids do. Instead, polio confined him to an iron lung for a month at Los Angeles County Hospital. That was before Jonas Salk developed the polio vaccine in […]