
Polio: We Don’t Work to Cure It….
… We work to ERADICATE it.
… We work to ERADICATE it.
Our annual Change for Change Campaign was a great success, raising $2,352 for polio!
Bill Gates announced at the 2017 Rotary International Conference that the Gates Foundation will match Rotary’s commitment to raise $50 million a year over the next three years, two-to-one.
In Borno State, where conflict has displaced thousands of people, malaria is currently claiming more lives than all other diseases combined.
Thirty years ago, polio paralyzed more than 350,000 children each year in more than 125 countries around the world.
On 12 June, global health leaders gathered to announce US$1.2 billion in funding for polio eradication at the Rotary International Convention in Atlanta, Georgia.
Since 1985, Rotary International, through its PolioPlus program, has been working tirelessly alongside the World Health Organization, the Center for Disease Control, UNICEF, the Bill and Melissa Gates Foundation, and a host of other volunteers to eradicate polio.
Celebrating its 100th anniversary at this month’s International Conference in Atlanta, the Rotary Foundation reaffirmed its commitment to the global eradication of polio.
At last week’s meeting, we welcomed District Governor-Nominee Bill Petty from the Tuscaloosa Morning Club as he shared his story of participating in the National Immunization Days (NIDs) in India.