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Wakefield Rotary Continues to Fight to End Polio
The world is 99.9% polio-free. It's time to make it history.
October 24th marks World Polio Day, a day to recognize the 35-year fight to end polio world-wide. This year, the Wakefield Rotary Club re-committed to helping eradicate the disease after raising thousands of dollars over the past ten years by raising awareness and education.
Today, the world is 99.9% polio-free. Rotarians and its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative across the globe engage communities to help finish the job and end this paralyzing disease. From encouraging vaccine acceptance, to sharing factual vaccination information, to calling on elected officials to fund polio eradication, there are so many ways in which the community can each support polio eradication efforts. Once eradicated, polio will be only the second human disease ever to be eradicated.
To learn more, visit endpolio.org.
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About Rotary International & Wakefield Rotary Club
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. There are 1.2 million Rotarians in 160 countries worldwide. The first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois in 1905 by an attorney named Paul Harris and several of his colleagues. The name “Rotary” was derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among each of the members’ offices. The Rotary motto is “Service above self”. The Wakefield Rotary Club meets each Tuesday at noon at Brightview on Crescent Street. For more information on the club's initiatives or to join the Wakefield Rotary Club, visit www.wakefieldrotaryclub.org or contact us at wakefieldrotaryclub@yahoo.com.
