WORLD POLIO DAY - 24 October 2025
Mon, Oct 13th 2025 at 12:01 am- Mon, Nov 10th 2025 - 2:01 am
Every year we observe World Polio Day to raise awareness of the importance of polio vaccination to protect every child from this devastating disease. Help us raise £250 by donating to our Just Giving page.
If you would like to help us in this globally important cause, please donate on our Just Giving page.
For more than 40 years Rotary International has been working to eradicate this paralysing and potentially deadly disease. Polio cases have reduced by 99.9% since 1979. In this time, Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect 3 billion children in 122 countries. Unfortunately polio still remains in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Bill Gates (Microsoft) has previously matched $1 to every $1 raised by Rotary International. However, at the Rotary Convention in Calgary earlier this year he pledged to double his contribution to $2 for every $1 raised by Rotary. This money provides vaccine delivery, polio eradication programs and emergency responses for outbreaks. In fact London saw one of these when polio was detected in sewerage samples in February 2022. We cannot and should not rest on our laurels. Whilst polio is still in the world, we are still under threat of it returning. It wouldn’t take much.
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