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A Shared Experience 6 May 19, 2008
Federal Express Partners with the Norwin Rotary Club
to Eradicate Polio
For the second year in a row Federal
Express has partnered with the Norwin
Rotary Club of North Huntingdon to ship
hundreds of gently used stuffed animals
to the slum stricken areas of India.
Together with the Rotary Club of
Rajkot India, the Norwin Rotary
Club is helping to stamp out
polio for hundreds of children.
This year we are shipping 27
boxes of gently used stuffed animals
that were collected from our community,
fellow Rotarians, and Boy Scout troops
throughout our area in the hopes that
the parents of these children in India
bring their kids to get their polio
immunizations. In return, the children
will get a lifelong “friend” to hug and
hold. Something that would have only
happened in their dreams.
The project, which is called “The Gift A
Smile”, is just that. The smiles that are
on these little faces when they receive
their new stuffed friends tears at your
heart. The poor children sometimes are
given food, clothes, books, but rarely
are they given a token of love – A soft
toy which instantly brings a broad smile!
One parent wrote “that their children
wanted such soft toys for the past 6
months but they could not afford to buy
them one. Now their children have 2
such toys.” Another parent wrote “A kid
who could barely sit and breath, smiled
after days according to his mother while
he patted the dog which came
especially from the USA!”
On June 5th, at 1:00 in the
afternoon, Federal Express
International will be coming out
to CSDI to pick up the 27 boxes of
animals and the 15 boxes of children‟s
books for the Children‟s Library in
Rajkot India. Norwin Rotary President,
William Merchant, along with 2nd Vice
President, Dina Denning (also the owner
of CSDI) will be present to help load the
boxes onto the Federal Express trucks.
I am also asking the Boy Scouts that did
their Service project to be a part of
loading up the trucks as well.
The Norwin Rotary Group is just thrilled
that Federal Express has stepped up to
ship all of these boxes for us and we
feel that the community needs to know
about the project and the Humanity that
Federal Express is delivering.
For more specifics on this project,
please call me direct at 724-863-4104
x114.
Dina K. Denning