Since 2011, Global Citizens, alongside partners like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International, have campaigned to eradicate polio, a life-threatening disease, worldwide. A decade later, millions of Global Citizens have taken action to help deliver $2.6 billion in commitments to partners like the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) and the World Health Organization (WHO) to continue delivering vaccines to the world’s hardest-to-reach places.
This year, we traveled to Kano in Nigeria to meet WHO vaccination coordinator Dr. Abubakar and mother of five Hafsat, who’s helped protect communities — and her own family — from the deadly disease, thanks in part to the actions of Global Citizens. Today, polio is 99.9% eradicated — but we’re aiming for 100%.
Global Citizen Festival returns for its 10th anniversary edition on Saturday, September 24, 2022 from New York City’s Central Park, and and Black Star Square in Accra, Ghana to call on world leaders and major corporations to take urgent action for girls, for the planet, and to end extreme poverty NOW. Global Citizens have been working to eliminate extreme poverty for more than a decade, taking more than 30.4 million actions over 10 years to help change more than 1.15 billion lives and to celebrate 10 years of Global Citizen impact, we take a look at 5 Global Citizen and partner-led campaigns, ranging from education to healthcare, that demonstrate the power of one action. Global Citizen worked with partners, the World Health Organization (WHO), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Education Cannot Wait, the Global Partnership for Education, Save the Children Colombia, Yuva Unstoppable, Chris Martin of Coldplay, La Casa de Don Pedro, International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), and Agricultural Development IFAD Goodwill Ambassador and Global Citizen Advocate Sabrina Dhowre Elba to tell these incredible stories.
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