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05Mar09 BBC News 24, Interview with Gautam Lewis, 21st Feb 2009

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Tourists taking snaps of the Houses of Parliament got a little something extra in their photos during the weekend of 21st February, when Rotary illuminated the iconic building with the words End Polio Now.

The dramatic message â€“ Rotaryâ€™s pledge to rid the world of the crippling disease â€“ was projected on to the structure on Saturday (21 February) as part of an international initiative to encourage the world to get behind the final push to eradicate polio from the four remaining endemic countries.

Other buildings being illuminated in the week of Rotaryâ€™s 104th birthday (23 February) include the Sydney Opera House, the Coliseum in Rome, Cape Town, the prestigious Culzean Castle in Glasgow and High Falls in Rochester New York.

25Feb09 FITA Press: Ridding the world of polio; BBC World Service

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The global fight to rid the world of polio, the largest public health programme in history, is said to be in its final stages.

Is eradication possible? Is it worth the enormous cost?

Newshour on the BBC World Service brought together public health experts with very different opinions to debate the issue.

Dr Bruce Aylward is director of the polio eradication programme of the World Health Organisation and Dr D.A. Henderson of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center led the WHO’s successful effort to eradicate smallpox.

Newshour also heard from Nigeria, one of the countries where the polio virus still thrives and from Gautam Lewis, a British pilot and a polio campaigner who suffered from polio as a young child in India. Gautam has spent the last few years assisting Rotary International in their vision for a polio free world.

Listen to the debate, courtesy of the BBC (25 mins 29 secs) / first broadcast 21 February 2009 ( we have added a slideshow to go along with the radio debate)

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10Dec08 Foto8.com: The story of Gautam Lewis

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Gautam Lewis is an ambassador on behalf of Rotary International for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which was set up in 1988 and has immunized many millions of children against the virus.

Gautam himself contracted polio when he was 18 months old living in the twin city of Howrah & Kolkata in India. At the time one in five children in the city died of the virus. Gautam not only survived, but went on to have an eventful career in the music industry in th UK before setting up a flying school providing free training for disabled people.

From street to advocate, this is his story as told to Ruby Russell… to read the rest of the story please visit foto8.com by clicking here…

10Nov08 Asian Whoâ€™s Who International’s 21st awards ceremony

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL’S POLIO AMBASSADOR RECEIVES â€œASIAN WHOâ€™S WHOâ€ CHARITY AWARD 2008

Gautam Lewis who has been back to India where he was abandoned as a child to take part in Rotary Internatioal’s mass polio immunization campaigns has received ‘Asian Who’s Who’ Charity Award 2008.

The Award was presented to Rotary Internationalâ€™s Polio Ambassador Gautam Lewis at Asian Whoâ€™s Who International’s 21st annual book launch and awards ceremony which took place at a glittering gala dinner in London’s Dorchester Hotel, Park Lane, on Friday, 24th October, 2008, attended by more than 300 guests, including Asian business tycoons, politicians, peers and celebrities.

Gautam Lewis said: ‘I started of life abandoned on the mean streets of Kolkata because of polio and as an adult have gone back to help eradicate polio. To receive this Award is a great honour and I would like to acknowledge everyone at Rotary for the work that is being done to end polio. I am accepting this award on behalf of all of the Rotarians and people involved in this global goal to eradicate polio.’

BBC News Channel had exclusive live coverage of the event, including live broadcasts and interviews with Award winners and guests. Presenters Matthew Amroliwala and Riz Lateef hosted the event.

06Nov08 Press : The Bulletin - British Polio fellowship

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This is an article in November 2008 issue of The Bulletin - The British Polio Fellowship will be having their 75th anniversary later this year.

27Oct08 Freedom Press : The Telegraph; Kolkata, India

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London, Oct. 25: A 31-year-old man, dumped by his parents outside Mother House in Calcutta when he was three because he had polio, last night won an award in London for his polio alleviation charitable work in Calcutta.

At the annual Asian Whoâ€™s Who dinner at Dorchester Hotel, Gautam Lewis, who thinks his original name might have been Gautam De, struggled to the stage on crutches to the loudest applause of the evening and collected a prestigious award for â€œAsian Leadership in Charityâ€. read the rest of the story….

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