Order Your Polio Tulips Now
Looking to enhance your garden next spring? Don't miss out on these beauties! Rotary is selling a limited number of tulips this month and a portion of the sales (between 40 and 50%) will be donated to Rotary Foundation to continue our efforts to eradicate Polio. Contact Phil Warren (or any member of the Rotary Club of Kentville) to place your order. Tulips are $25 for 25 bulbs and will be delivered in September.
Our Goal to Eradicate Polio
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
The help of all Rotarians is needed to create awareness and funds to reach our goal of raising $50 million by June 30 to maximize the 2 to 1 match from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a total of $150 million. Every donation helps us obtain the vaccines, transportation and materials needed in the fight against polio.
Can you help us reach our goal? Consider donating today at endpolio.org/donate.