POLIO ERADICATION RECEIVES ANOTHER BOOST

The Google Foundation puts up $3,500,000. as a challenge grant for Rotary in their pursuit of Polio eradication from the planet! Rotary will raise funds to match the Google Foundation grant dollar for dollar over one year. This follows close on the heels of the $200 million challenge grant to Rotary from the Gates Foundation on November 27^th, 2007. A world effort to beat polio has succeeded in slashing the number of cases by 99% over the past two decades but the virus that causes the disease still persists, mainly in Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan. Rotary has donated over $650 Million dollars to the fight against this crippling disease since targeting this disease in 1985.