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On Feb 23, 2016
British Citizen Award for Polio Children Founding trustee Mayoor Patel
Polio Children Founding trustee Mayoor Patel is honoured with British Citizen Award for International Achievement for (BCAo).
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On Dec 07, 2015
Brothers who set up polio charity hailed by Prime Minister David Cameron
A BOLTON man who helped set up a charity to support children who have polio has been honoured by the Prime Minister.
Mayoor Patel and his older brother Arun Patel have been given a Point of Light award to recognise their work with the Polio Children charity.
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On Nov 14, 2015
PM David Cameron recognises Polio Children's Arun and Mayoor Patel with Points of Light award
This morning Prime Minister Mr David Cameron tweeted, ‘Arun and Mayoor Patel from Polio_Children are todays # Points of Light for changing hundreds of children’s lives ow.ly/UATKd ’
and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi tweeted, ’Fantastic to see @Number10gov recognise Arun and Mayo...
On Apr 13, 2015
Providing mobility in South Sudan
Angelina is a 12-year old girl with polio in both her lower limbs. Determined to get an education at any cost, she would literally crawl on her knees on a pebble-strewn path to the nearest school – 3 miles from her village. She would start her journey at 6 each morning so that she could get to...
On Feb 03, 2015
A 2015 British Citizen Award for Polio Children's Arun Patel
ARUN PATEL, CHAIRMAN, POLIO CHILDREN (UK) WINS BRITISH CITIZEN AWARD
British Citizen Awards
The British Citizen Awards is a new recognition program for any individual who...
On Dec 01, 2014
How I Helped Equip a Sewing and Tailoring Workshop at Kwa Mkono – Suhina Patel
In December 2014, I undertook a project at the Polio Hostel in Kwa Mkono, a village located about a 5-hour drive from Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. Polio Hostel is one of the programs supported by Polio Children. This was my second project after my visit to SKSN in India in December 2013, where I taught ...
On May 23, 2014
UK Government pledges £300million towards Polio Eradication
Polio Children’s founding trustee, Mayoor Patel, invited to advocate for the support and rehabilitation of children afflicted with polio at The Global Poverty Project’s Parliamentary Polio Diaspora Event. The meeting supporting The End of Polio campaign was held in the Thatcher Room at Houses of Par...
On May 23, 2014
We are in the news again!
Click here to read the Big Interview with Arun Patel on Polio Children in the June 2013 edition of the Ilford Recorder....
On May 23, 2014
Rotary International
Rotary International applauds Polio Children’s work to “heal our planet from polio.” For more please read the letter from Rotary Club to Polio Children here
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On May 13, 2014
NEW – RED HOT NEWS from House of Commons, LONDON…6th May 2014
The trustees of Polio Children were invited to a special reception at the House of Commons to celebrate the Polio-Free Certification of the WHO South East Asia Region(home of over 1.8 billion people), an historic milestone in the worldwide effort to end polio and realize the broad benefits eradicati...
