Mark Your Calendar: October 24 is World Polio Day
The Rochester Rotary Clubs respectfully requested the City of Rochester to issue a proclamation to commemorate World Polio Day on Monday, October 24, 2022.
October 17th - Mayor Kim Norton will read the World Polio Day proclamation at the City Council meeting to be held at 7 pm.
October 23rd - City Hall dome lights will be illuminated in red & yellow in recognition of World Polio Day the following day.
October 24th - Look for the Mayo Clinic Plummer Building to be illuminated in red & yellow this evening in recognition of World Polio Day.
Smallpox is the only human disease ever eradicated. Let’s make polio the second! Join the fight to #endpolio with @Rotary on #WorldPolioDay October 24th. https://www.endpolio.org/donate
Your donation helps Rotary and its partners reach every child with the polio vaccine. Thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, your contribution will be matched 2:1 – thus tripling your donation, and getting us even closer to a polio-free world.
Your donation helps Rotary and its partners reach every child with the polio vaccine. Thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, your contribution will be matched 2:1 – thus tripling your donation, and getting us even closer to a polio-free world.
Rotary members have been at the center of the worldwide effort to eradicate polio for more than three decades. Rotary launched PolioPlus in 1985 and helped found the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) in 1988, when there were an estimated 350,000 polio cases across more than 125 countries in one year. Since then, cases have plummeted more than 99.9%, sparing more than 20 million people from paralysis. Rotary has helped immunize nearly 3 billion children against polio, contributed more than US$2.6 billion to global polio eradication efforts, and helped secure more than US$10 billion from donor governments.