ROTARY CLUB OF HANOVER COMMEMORATES WORLD POLIO DAY
INVITES LOCAL POLIO SURVIVORS TO OCTOBER 29TH MEETING
On World Polio Day, thousands of Rotary Clubs around the world will hold events and fundraisers to recognize our progress in the global fight to end polio. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotary has reduced polio cases by 99.9% since the first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. We’ve helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. So far, Rotary has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward eradicating the disease worldwide.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
We invite local polio survivors to join us on October 29th at our Rotary Club of Hanover weekly meeting at Bay City Seafood Restaurant located at 110 Eisenhower Drive, Hanover, PA at noon. Our program will be presented by our esteemed District Governor, Reverend Patrick J. Rooney, an advocate of polio eradication and supporter of the Polio Survivors Network. Bailey Coach will have their Rotary International wrapped bus on display to honor our guests. Lunch will be complimentary. Please rsvp to Kim Hackett at khackett@vnahanover.org or 717-637-1227 by October 22nd.
More information on Rotary’s efforts to eradicate polio can be found at: https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/ending-polio