Plan a creative World Polio Day activity

 
RI President John Germ’s message in The Rotarian summarized decades of progress:
“Before Rotary took on the task of polio eradication, 350,000 people – nearly all of them children – were paralyzed by polio every year. Today, 31 years after the launch of PolioPlus, children are growing up without that fear of polio. Instead of 1,000 new cases of polio every day, we average less than one per week. But as the fear of polio wanes, so does awareness. Now more than ever, it is vitally important to keep that awareness high and to push polio eradication to the top of the public agenda and our governments’ priorities.”
 
Rotary is leading the way to the ultimate finish line where there is No More Polio. To mark World Polio Day on October 24 and help make that a reality:
  1. Register your club’s End Polio Now event online.
  2. Donate and have your gift tripled by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
  3. Use Rotary resources available online:
    • Toolkit Social media graphics
    • Media and advocacy