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January 27, 2012

Teleprompters, Translation and a Tie

…I couldn’t help but be aware of how much my life has changed in the last few years.

Last week I flew to San Diego to speak at a Rotary International Assembly. It was a bit heady for me. Not only my first time with a teleprompter and six-language simultaneous translation, but I was an ‘opening act’ for the President of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, who announced that they were chipping in another $50 million to Rotary, on top of their previous $200 million matching grant, to support Rotary’s ongoing effort to wipe out Polio entirely. And some great news had come out of India in the week previous to the conference: it has now been over a year since a new case of polio has been reported there.  That brings the number of countries where polio is still endemic to just three—Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.

I was there to talk about the Rotary Peace Fellowship, which I was awarded in 2008 (back when it was called the Rotary World Peace Fellowship). Rotary is trying to endow the program so that it will be self-supporting, and they are two-thirds of the way to their $95 million goal. Congratulations to them for the good work they’re doing. Rotary Peace Fellows are having an impact, and I think we’ll see them having an even greater impact in years to come.  I believe in this program, and I’m grateful for opportunities to support it.

Rotary ran this article on its web site this week:  Folk Singer Turned Peace Fellow is Changing the World. There is a link from that page to the text of that talk, and even to a DVD of it.

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Filed Under: General Update, In the News, Peace Work, Slideshow Tagged With: Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, International Assembly, Polio Plus, Rotary, Rotary Foundation, Rotary Peace Fellow, Rotary World Peace Fellow, San Diego

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