Calgary West receives Harris Trophy

           

Awarded to the top fundraising Club in the Indoor Ride to End Polio for the second year running, the trophy is proudly on display in Evanston.

 

Calgary West hosted the Ride to End Polio on November 12th, 2016. The ride was attended by over 30 enthusiastic Rotarians and friends and successfully raised $18,671 USD before matching. Rotary International and its partners in the polio eradication effort have cooperated to reduce the number of polio cases by more than 99% (from 350,000 cases per year in the 1980s to less than 60 cases this year). Today only three countries have endemic polio: Pakistan and Afghanistan, and recently Nigeria had a reoccurrence.

More importantly through the "End Polio Now: Make History Today" campaign, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation matched two-to-one every dollar making our contribution to polio eradication worth over $56,000 USD. In addition a matching grant by an anonymous donor was made to the Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation bringing our total funds raised to $75,000 USD or almost $100,000 CDN.

 

 

A huge thanks goes out to all of the Rotarians, friends, and sponsors who truly made a difference.

Ride to End Polio