WORLD POLIO DAY CELEBRATION
Mr. Wayne Bingham
with Chad Bingham
The Rotary Club of Braselton will be holding a special meeting at the DeBussey 3 Room within The Chateau Elan Hotel/Conference Center on October 17, 2019 at 7:30 am (Thursday). The club will be celebrating Rotary International’s efforts to create and maintain a polio-free world.
Our guest speaker is Mr. Wayne Bingham, a Polio survivor and former Operations Flow Manager for the Discover Space Shuttle for government contractor United Space Alliance. Wayne brings us stories of growing up with Polio along with playing baseball during his school days, as well as his stories working on the space shuttle program at Cape Canaveral.
In 1985 Rotary International launched PolioPlus and helped establish the Global Polio Eradication initiative which includes the World Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Polio is a virus that can lead to paralysis, but is preventable. There were once 350,000 cases worldwide in the 1980’s and now there are only 33 cases. Formerly polio-stricken areas such as Nigeria are now Polio free. Rotary International is currently working within Afghanistan and Pakistan to get preventative measures into remote, often war-torn, regions in the effort to put the once-dreaded disease to rest once and for all. Rotary is determined and committed to eradicate this disease.
If you are a Rotary International member or polio survivor or interested in membership with Rotary, we would welcome you as a guest.
