Rotary Club of Indianapolis Recognized in Forbes Online!
In a piece titled, “What is Rotary International? Your Local Rotary Club Is Doing More Than You Think,” Devin Thorpe, Contributor to Forbes Online reached out to the Rotary International community to learn about the sorts of things clubs are doing around the world. And, Indianapolis was one of the featured clubs!
The Rotary Club of Indianapolis described it’s contribution to feeding the hungry in Indianapolis by raising 1.5 million dollars, to help fund the building of the new Gleaners Food Bank that houses more food and has the ability to serve many more hungry citizens. And, in 2012 the Gleaners Food Bank would be renamed to be the Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Rotary Club of Indianapolis Food Distribution Center. This goal of raising $1.5 million was accomplished in January 2013.
You probably know that Rotary International is the group to which Bill Gates and his foundation turned years ago to fund the global battle on polio. In the mid-nineties Rotary helped to immunize 165 million children in China and India in a single year. Rotarians themselves have contributed hundreds of millions of dollars to the fight against polio. Rotary is winning this battle: in 1988 when Rotary launched their global initiative (individual clubs had been active in the effort long before) there were 125 “polio endemic” countries in the world; today there are just three.
