The Final Inch [google and fight to erradicate polio]
Cheers to Google for embarking on this ambitious film with Vermilion Films to show the way many parts of the world are still struggling to fight polio; something all but eradicated in our country. I think this is a great idea and congratulations to Google for supporting such a worthy cause. It is important that the rest of the world be constantly remind of the suffering across the globe. The only problem I have is that it is being released on HBO. This should have a much more public release than that. After all Google is behind it, you would think they could post this to the internet for all to see. Here’s a snippet of the article on The Official Google Blog followed by the video.
We’re proud to announce The Final Inch, a 38-minute film about the historic global effort to eradicate polio. Here, the story told is as much about the messengers as the message. You’ll meet Munzareen Fatima, one of the thousands of community “foot soldiers” across India working to sway reluctant families to vaccinate their children, and Dr. Ashfaq Bhat, who travels into the backwaters of India’s Ganges Basin by boat and foot to detect emerging cases of polio. Martha Mason and Mikail Davenport bring us into their lives and describe the paralyzing challenges of childhood polio, reminding us how endemic polio once was in the United States. [link]