District 6780 - The Rotary Foundation Committees

Allison Kwesell, former staff photographer with the Chattanooga Times Free Press, is a freelance photo journalist whose PolioPlus photos from India were featured at our 2009 district conference and in The Rotarian magazine.

She is set to be a 2011 Rotary World Peace Fellow.

She is just returning from a few months in India, where she took some amazing photos. Click here to share her vision.

Fred Heitman, Rotary Club of Oak Ridge, District Sub-Committee Chair

PolioPlus Program

PolioPlus, the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history, is the volunteer arm of the global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease. Today, PolioPlus and its role in the initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal.

Eradicate Polio - Click Here Click here for information about Polio Eradicator Clubs

Click here to download a Microsoft Word file that describes our goals and objectives for the year and also has information on the "YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD" campaign.

Click here to download a pdf file of the artwork for the can for the "YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD" campaign.

Click here to download the suggested press release you can localize to promote the "YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD" campaign in your community.

Greetings District Presidents:

There is a link above to a press release about World Polio Day on October 24, 2009. Since we are posting this in early October, about a week before our district wide campaign of "YOU CAN CHANGE THE WORLD," I thought that it would be a good time to begin making the public aware of your upcoming activities. Please distribute this press release to your local paper as a first step in our Polio Plus campaign.

As a reminder: On November 1 place your labeled cans in businesses around your community. Labels may be downloaded by clicking here. Check the cans weekly to recover the change. At the end of November, send the money you collect to Ploio Plus. Simple, easy and direct.

I will be sending you e mails during November to give to your local paper. This will help to make the public in your community aware of what you are doing. These press releases will be generic and will have some blanks for you to fill in your name and club name. That will make it more likely to get in the local paper. Where ther is more than one club in town then rotate who gets the publicity each week.

– Fred Heitman, October 11, 2009