Purple Pins for Polio

Incentive Fund

Amount: $3000

Provided By: Personal Donation and Gates Foundation

Details: I will be sending a matching donation to the Rotary Polio Fund for up to $3,000 in donations on this page. Each dollar will be also matched with an additional two dollars by the Gates Foundation.

Summary

Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. We've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.

Your donation helps Rotary and its partners reach every child with the polio vaccine. Thanks to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, your contribution will be tripled, getting us even closer to a polio-free world.

We accept donations of any amount. Thank you for your help in the fight to End Polio Now!

Polio, or poliomyelitis, is a paralyzing and potentially deadly infectious disease that most commonly affects children under the age of 5. The virus spreads from person to person, typically through contaminated water. It can then attack the nervous system. Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan 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.

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