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Members of the Bronx Westchester-South Division from Fordham, Hartsdale and East Yonkers clubs gathered at Fordham University for a "dual" Walk-a-Thon to raise funds and community awareness of the campaign to ELIMINATE maternal and neo-natal tetanus.
The "Bronx walk" was timed precisely 13 hours prior to the kick-off of the ELIMINATE walk that took place in Chiba Japan at the 99th Annual Kiwanis International Convention and attended by Past International President Tom DeJulio and Past International First Lady Rosemary DeJulio.
The Bronx walk raised more than $1,000 to be added to the $400,000 raised during the Chiba convention that will save approximately a quarter-million newborn lives. Since its start in 2010, Kiwanis International has raised more than $60 million worldwide and protected more than 33 million lives in the most impoverished and vulnerable regions in the world where babies die every nine minutes from tetanus.
The campaign will end in 2015 leaving a "gift of life" to the world during the 100th birthday of Kiwanis International.
Pictured at right at the DeJulios, in Japan, and, below, the walkers at Fordham.
(Posted July 23, 2014)
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