End Polio Race Sets for 24th October 2015
Posted by Mitsy Ellis-Simpson
on Oct 07, 2015
In collaboration with the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College and Highland Spring Water, the Rotary Club of Tortola is encouraging residents and visitors to join our Rotary Club for an End Polio Race on 24th October 2015. The Race will be held at the College at 7 a.m.
Michael Killourhy, Board Director and Chairman of the Foundation Committee of the Rotary Club of Tortola stated that Polio is a highly-infectious, crippling and often fatal disease. When Rotary began the fight in 1985, polio affected 350,000 people, mostly children, in 125 countries every year. Since then, polio cases have dropped by more than 99 percent. To date, Rotary has contributed $1.3 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect more than two billion children.
“After nearly 30 years, the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, of which Rotary is a leading part, stands on the brink of history by making polio only the second human disease to be stopped forever. However to maintain this and eradicate Polio everywhere and forever needs funds and volunteers. Just a small donation to the Rotary Polio Fund will allow for a number of children to inoculated and other step taken to end Polio. a.m,” he said. Donations will also be accepted on the Race Day for Rotary International Polio Fund.
The Rotary Club of Tortola is the oldest club in the British Virgin Islands which was chartered on 5th January 1968 with 20 founding members. There are approximately 100 members currently in the club. The Rotary Club of Tortola meets at The Moorings Mariner Inn Restaurant on Thursdays at 12:30 P.M.