Crocus Planting for
Glossop Rotary with the help of scouts groups, Dinting Explorers, 1st Hadfield, 2nd Glossop & 3rd Glossop today planted 4000 purple crocuses in a large Rotary wheel in Harehills Park (the Sandhole) to promote support for Polio eradication.
Rotary members in Glossop Rotary Club are marking progress toward a polio-free world while helping to end the paralysing disease
Our members are taking action in honour of World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds, and support to end polio, a vaccine-preventable disease that still threatens children in parts of the world today including Gaza.
Foundation chair, Geoff Bain, said “We hope that our contribution towards Polio eradication when combined with the efforts of the 46,000 clubs throughout the World will make a significant contribution to its removal.”
Polio anywhere is a threat everywhere, and Rotary members from Glossop have long worked to end the paralyzing virus, which will be only the second human disease ever to be eradicated.
Rotary has contributed more than £2.1 billion to fight polio and countless volunteer hours since launching its PolioPlus program in 1985. In 1988, Rotary joined in partnership with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to form the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. The Gates Foundation and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, later joined. When the initiative launched, there were 350,000 cases of polio every year. Today, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9%.
To sustain this progress and continue to reach every child with the polio vaccine, Rotary has committed to raising £38 million each year to support global polio eradication efforts.
The Gates Foundation has pledged to match this amount 2-to-1 for a total yearly contribution of £114 million.
Visit Rotary.org and endpolio.org for more about Rotary and its efforts to eradicate polio.
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£500 was donated to this deserving organisation which arranges sports activities for disabled members
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Recognition of the importance of eliminating Polio from the World, only 9 case left; cases still in Pakistan & Afghanistan.
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"End Polio Now" has received a welcome boost from donations from other Rotary Clubs who have booked our own member, Tony Bell, to speak on the Hubble telescope.
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LtoR: Gill Redfern of Glossop Rotary Club delivering the PPE for St. Christopher's Trust and Blythe House Hospice
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Pam Joyce of Disaster Aid UK receives a cheque for £2,700 from President Gill. This was the proceeds of our collections, personal donations and our club donation.
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Glossop Rotary Club have collected over 360 pairs of shoes towards our District Shoe Aid campaign.
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We have donated £1,000 to Disaster Aid UK & Ireland and £1,000 to The Rotary Disaster Recovery Trust
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Glossop Rotary Club has made a small contribution towards the new defibrillator installation at the Pilates Studio in Glossop
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Our club was founded in Glossop in 1938.
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Glossop Rotary Club together Glossop Inner Wheel joined Warrington Rotary Club's "Stop Hunger Now" initiative to help provide 100,000 meals to Nairobi.
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