Famous Polios- Highlight on Desmond Tutu- 1st in Series!

Salute to Desmond Tutu

Desmond Tutu, archbishop emeritus and nobel peace laureate, is also a polio survivor. He is the polio ambassador in Rotary’s “This Close” Campaign. The football that has traveled through the 23 polio-affected countries during the Kick Polio Out of Africa Campaign, was signed by him and we believe- silently blessed for a safe journey...read full article

His personality truly comes to life in this late night intereview with Craig Ferguson...what a sense of humor! This was filmed a few months before his announcement of resignation.



No one better embodied the contradictory times. Standing all of five foot three, Bishop Tutu could whip a crowd into a frenzy, then insist on nonviolence. He was given to making intemperate remarks and offering breathtaking forgiveness all in the same speech. The title of John Allen's biography captures the seesaw spirit of this "rabble-rouser for peace."

Considering the challenges of the first half of his life, few would have guessed that Tutu would become such a forceful figure. He was lucky to survive childhood: born into near-poverty, sickly from birth, he contracted polio in infancy and then was badly burned. A community of Anglican monks shaped his life, and perhaps saved it—providing hospital care for more than a year as he narrowly survived tuberculosis...read full article