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African Global Grant Partner of North Atlanta Club Receives a District Award

The Ethiopian Rotary Club of Addis Ababa – Central Mella won the Anna Award for "Most Impressive Project and Best Maternal Child Project" at the Centennial District 9212 Conference in Mombasa.

The club is North Atlanta’s "boots on the ground" partner in a five-year Rotary Global Grant project to provide supplemental folic acid tablets to women at risk, aiming to reduce spina bifida and other birth defects.  Hospitals in Ethiopia distribute the tablets, with 1.8 million purchased to date from an Indian supplier.

Other global partners in this initiative include the Rotary Clubs of Coppell, TX, Raleigh, NC and Addis Ababa West, along with the ReachAnother Foundation (RAF) of Oregon and Ethiopia, working with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health (MOH).  The Rotary Clubs of Dunwoody and Tyrone contributed. Rotarian Dr. Yakob Ahmed is the RAF’s Country Director. Dr. Ralph Peeler of the North Atlanta Club is the principal of the club’s signature project.

 

The North Atlanta Club developed an online spina bifida prevention forum to foster collaboration among the participants and other interested parties:  https://sbf-forum.org/index.php

 

The spina bifida prevention initiative is in its third year, now involving six hospitals and planning to enroll 2500 high-risk mothers. Other hospitals in Ethiopia are referring at-risk patients for the folic acid tablets that are unavailable elsewhere.

Epidemiological data is being compiled and analyzed in Ethiopia for publication to demonstrate the project’s quantitative scope and positive impact.

For further details, refer to Rotary’s Service Project Center or contact Dr. Ralph Peeler at rdpiiimd@comcast.net.

Rotary:  https://spc.rotary.org/project?guid=58368E94-0EEB-425B-A603-3B33487A45D9

"Teamwork makes the dream work."

Posted by Jon Yaeger
June 11, 2025

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