'Service Above Self' more than just a slogan

The Rotary motto 'Service Above Self' inspires members to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards, and promote good will and peace in the world.  The END POLIO project to eradicate polio from the world is Rotary's biggest humanitarian & international service project with the help of the Gates Foundation, Rotarians, the World Health Organization, UNICEF and you. 

Today for the second year in a row, India is without polio cases.  For the past two years India is polio free, a major achievement in the country that was once the world's epicentre of polio. The number of polio-endemic countries, those which have never stopped indigenous wild poliovirus transmission, are Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.  Rotarians give up time and their own money to travel and immunize children against polio on a (NID) National Immunization Day in these countries.  An NID is a massive, coordinated campaign that aims to interrupt the circulation of poliovirus by administering the oral vaccine to every child in thehighest risk age group (normally under the age of  five).  Polio-usually organize multiple rounds of NIDs annually for at least three years.