8-409: Ravaglia is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Luciano Ravaglia (1923–2017), Italian engineer Nicola Ravaglia (born 1988), Italian footballer Paolo Ravaglia (born 1959), Italian clarinetist Roberto Ravaglia (born 1957), Italian racing driver and team owner [REDACTED] Surname list This page lists people with
16-681: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Luciano Ravaglia Luciano Ravaglia (13 December 1923, in Forlimpopoli – 26 January 2017, in Dovadola ) was an Italian engineer and member of the Rotary Club of Forlì , D 2072, Italy. In 1979, when the United States saw its last case of polio , Sergio Mulitsch di Palmenberg, the celebrated Rotarian from the Treviglio Club, joined
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32-624: The Forlì Rotary Club. The vaccination campaigns were subsequently repeated in the Philippines, and reached as far as Morocco. The two Italians, together with a few other willing members, founded an NGO called “Nuovi spazi al servire”, in order to achieve Rotarian objectives and humanitarian missions. When Mulitsch was appointed as chairman of the national PolioPlus committee of the Italian Rotary Club, Luciano Ravaglia became his deputy. Over
40-502: The Philippines, Sabino “Benny” Santos, loved to recall how, when it came to polio immunization in his country “Even before we received the first shipment of oral polio vaccine purchased with money authorized by the Rotary International board, we received 500,000 doses in a shipment as a gift from Italian schoolchildren to the schoolchildren of the Philippines. This came through the efforts of Past District Governor Sergio Mulitsch and
48-510: The Rotary 3-H (Hunger, Health and Humanity) project and volunteered to try out a vaccination campaign which, starting from Italy, took the first doses of polio vaccine to the Philippines, a country which was then badly affected by the disease. This marked the beginning of a Rotary project known as Polio2005, and later renamed PolioPlus, resulting in the vaccination of more than 6 million children in that country. A director of Rotary International from
56-449: The newly chartered Rotary Club of Treviglio e della Pianura Bergamasca. The Italian schoolchildren had donated their snack money to purchase the vaccines” . Ravaglia was famous as an engineer both in Italy and abroad for his cutting-edge city-planning and building solutions. In 1983, Sergio Mulitsch was joined in his philanthropic work, as previously mentioned, by Luciano Ravaglia, Rotarian from
64-524: The next few years, Ravaglia worked with dedication and enthusiasm to gain recognition from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for the NGO “Nuovi spazi al servire”. The international mission of the association was led by Ravaglia from 1987 onwards, when he was appointed as president of the NGO after Mulitsch’s death. “Nuovi spazi al servire” has always been supported by Rotarian volunteers and, in addition to raising funds for
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