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The World Celebrates President Carter's 85th Birthday

Oct. 1, 2009




Carter Center Photo:  D. Hakes

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter view greetings sent by well-wishers around the world in honor of President Carter's 85th birthday.


Greetings to former U.S. President Jimmy Carter have poured in from well-wishers around the world in celebration of his 85th birthday Oct. 1.  More than 7,000 online greetings have been submitted, along with hundreds of cards, video messages, and gifts.   

The cards and letters were fashioned into a large birthday greeting display, presented to President and Mrs. Carter in the newly renovated Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum prior to the gala reopening Oct. 1.  The display also included the online "birthday wall."  

Read the online greetings, view the videos, and see additional sample contributions below.





Guinea worm patients from the Kapoeta North Containment Center in Southern Sudan present a birthday card long-distance to President Carter.  The Carter Center provides technical and financial assistance to the country's Guinea Worm Eradication Program, which operates the containment center.



 

Members of the Jimmy Carter Mount Kilimanjaro Team, shown here at Uhuru Peak, will climb to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro--the highest peak on the African continent and the tallest freestanding mountain in the world--on Oct. 1 in tribute to President Carter on his 85th birthday.  The climb also honors the work of Mrs. Carter and The Carter Center.  Read the team leader's letter to President Carter (PDF) >

 

 





  

This birthday card was sent by the Onchocerciasis Elimination Program for the Americas - OEPA - headquartered in Guatemala.  The Carter Center is the sponsoring agency for the organization, which fights river blindness in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, and Venezuela.



  




The Lions Clubs of Ethiopia sent two original paintings to President Carter in honor of his 85th birthday.  At top, a portrait of President and Mrs. Carter, painted on a stretched hide.  The second painting, from a photograph taken in February 2007, includes the Carters, World Laureate Lion Tebebe Y. Berhan (left), Teshome Gebre (right) of the Carter Center's Trachoma Control Program in Ethiopia, and a family from Afeta, Ethiopia.  Through its partnership with Lions International and the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, the Center has built more than 350,000 latrines in Ethiopia to combat trachoma.






 


 



 



 

 


 


 


View the online birthday wall, with more than 7,000 greetings--from all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and 95 countries--to President Carter on his 85th birthday  >

 

Watch webcast of Oct. 1 Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum gala reopening ceremony and ribbon cutting >

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