Young women have always been leaders in their families, managing households and caring for their family members. But despite their extraordinary potential, girls and women remain invisible in much of the world.

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In 2011, we have seen parts of North Africa throw off dictatorships under the spotlight of the global media. But over the last two decades, many more sub-Saharan African countries have travelled the long bumpy road towards imperfect, multi-party democracy.

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It is common to say that, given the economic crisis, countries cannot be expected to budget for increases in official development assistance (ODA). But the facts show that it is possible – and happening.

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Within the next several months in the Horn of Africa, an estimated 750,000 lives may be lost to a famine that was years in the making, with a foundation that has as much to do with the rising price of food, conflict, lack of investment, and the ripple effects of poverty as it does with extended periods of drought.

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When I first journeyed to Japan as a Rotary exchange student in 1986, I could never have imagined that I would find myself 25 years later gazing upon the Tokyo Tower with several hundred Rotarians and global health leaders to mark a relatively unknown day on the calendar—October 24, a.k.a. World Polio Day.

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