End Polio Now
Rotary District 5040
End Polio Now Campaign
to Eradicate Polio
The mission of the End Polio Now campaign is to increase awareness, advocate, and raise funds to enable us to fulfil the promise that Rotary has made to the world:
"WE WILL ERADICATE POLIO FOREVER"
After 40+ years, Rotary along with our partners, have reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent worldwide since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. We are close to eradicating polio, but we need your help and to TAKE PART. .
Rotarians have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries. For as little as $3.00, a child can be protected against this crippling disease for life.
Your Donation is Worth 3 Times as Much
Rotary International has pledged to raise US$50 million towards polio over the three years to 2020
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will match two-to-one, up to US$50 million per year, every dollar Rotary provides to polio eradication funding for a total Rotary contribution of US$150 million per year.
Your gift to the PolioPlus Fund is a gift to the children of the world.
“ROTARY CONTINUES TO BE THE HEART AND SOUL OF POLIO ERADICATION.”
- Bill Gates, Co-chair, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
"FAILURE TO ERADICATE POLIO IS UNFORGIVABLE, FOREVER."
- Margaret Chan, Director-General, World Health Organization.
"When we eradicate polio - and we will - we will have proved ourselves an organization capable of great things. We'll have given the world a gift that will endure forever."
- RI Past President Gary Huang.