- World Polio Day 2020 - 24th October 2020 - End Polio Now - World Polio Day
Sat, Oct 24th 2020 at 12:00 am - 11:55 pm
Help Rotary clear polio from the world
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Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years, and we’ve made incredible progress in the fight to rid the world of it forever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've helped to reduced polio cases by more than 99.9 percent.
It’s crucial to eradicate polio from the last two countries where it remains endemic and to keep other countries polio-free.
If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
Be a part of history
Donate your funds
We’re close to eradicating polio, but we’re not done yet. We still need funds to continue immunization and surveillance efforts. Your gift will get us closer to the finish line.
Donate your time
Ending a disease is a massive effort, and Rotary and our partners can’t do it alone. You can join us in our efforts to end polio by being a part of World Polio Day.
Learn more about World Polio Day
Donate your voice
We need your voice to help us end polio now. Our resource center has materials such as social media messages and sample press releases.
At the suggestion of my Rotarian daughter Megha, to commemorate World Polio Day on 24th October this year, I have decided to raise maximum awareness and funds for the cause by dyeing my lockdown beard and world famous moustache bright purple and then shaving everything off - including my ponytail (shikha).
Why purple? The purple crocus is a symbol of Rotary's worldwide campaign to eradicate polio, with its colour representing the purple dye used to mark the finger of a child who has been immunised.
#EndPolioNow is a cause I have supported as a Rotarian for over 40 years in Yorkshire, and as an Interact Member (which is the junior arm of Rotary for teenagers) in Uganda were I was born.
Please donate generously, for the first time ever, my wife and children, and everyone else shall see me barefaced!!! My hair can always grow back, but for every £1 raised, the Melinda & Bill Gates Foundation will treble it and immunise 15 children from this crippling disease for life! Join me in this amazing campaign. Polio will be the 2nd human diesease to be eradicated from the world
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