24th Oct 2106
Rotary International’s “World-Wide Polio Day” is slated for Oct. 24 and is an opportunity for the 35,000 Rotary clubs around the world to focus on the eradication of Polio. Rotary has been working on this international service project for decades with great success, by establishing partnerships with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the World Health Organization (WHO).
Rotary’s focus is advocacy, fundraising, volunteer recruitment, and awareness. Through “Days of Tranquility”, countries at war will lay aside their differences and cease their fighting so that Rotarians can provide two drops of the life-saving vaccine to their children; and, thanks to “World Immunization Days”, there are only three endemic countries left on earth where Polio still exists — Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.
