World Polio Day - 24th October 2026
Sat, Oct 24th 2026 at 9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Members of the club distributing purple flowering crocus corms in Dunmow High street to mark World Polio Day
World Polio Day
On Saturday 24th October, members of the Rotary Club of Dunmow, along with family helpers, gave away 4,000 purple flowering crocus corms, in packs of 25, along Dunmow High Street, to highlight World Polio Day and the campaign to eradicate Polio Worldwide.
Rotary International, of which the Rotary Club of Dunmow is a part, has been working since 1985 to eradicate polio, along with the Bill Gates Foundation and the World Health Organisation. The programme has been very successful with currently just a few reported cases in Pakistan & Afghanistan, but it is important to keep the vaccine programme going to fully eradicate this awful disease.
The purple bloom of the crocus corms is significant as it is symbolic of the purple dye that is put on each child’s finger when vaccinated against polio in the developing world.
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