Crocus planting

CROCUS PLANTING 2024, POLIO ERADICATION AWARENESS
Knaresborough Rotarians have successfully planted 8000 crocus corms as part of their Polio awareness and End Polio Campaign. 4000 were planted at Linden Homes next to the Lidl roundabout, 2000 at Burton Leonard on the village green opposite the Post Office, and 2000 at Staveley within the School grounds and on the grass verge outside the school. At all three sites, the planting took less than two hours, and it did not rain!
We put up Rotary flags whilst we were planting and have put details on social media. Planting at Staveley was on World Polio Day, 24 October. In the spring, when the crocuses are in flower, we will be putting up banners and notices on these three sites, to inform people why they are planted and Rotary’s involvement in the worldwide eradication of polio.Rotary plants purple crocuses as the purple resembles the purple dye used on children's fingers to show that the child has received the vaccine. In 1985, Rotary pledged to rid the world of polio spearheading the campaign at a time when there were over 1,000 polio cases a day in 125 countries. Today, the number of cases is down by 99.99% and only two countries have endemic Polio, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Rotary's efforts over the years have seen 2.5 billion children immunised against the virus in 122 countries. It costs just 20p for each vaccine. Rotary Worldwide has donated $2.1 billion to the project. Rotary’s aim is to make polio only the second disease eradicated by vaccination and public health measures since smallpox. To donate go toRotary Club of Knaresborough - JustGiving