Polio Awareness

Polio Awareness


Radcliffe Rotary and helpers were planting crocus bulbs round the ELPM gates in Festival Gardens on Saturday and planted some in Radcliffe Cemetary on Friday. Rotary launched PolioPlus in 1985 and was a founding member of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in 1988. Through decades of commitment and work by Rotary and our partners more than 2.5 billion children have received the oral polio vaccine in over 120 countries. We are very close to finally eradicating the world of polio. When a child has had their drops the end of their little finger is marked with a purple permanent marker. The purple crocus is the symbol of this

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