Laurie’s Reviews > The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House > Status Update

He led efforts to eradicate medieval-sounding diseases such as guinea worm and river blindness and to make sure the world’s children were immunized against polio and measles. He directed programs to make harvests more bountiful in countries facing agricultural ruin; he preached around the globe about the importance of religious tolerance; and he launched an imaginative urban rehabilitation program in Atlanta.