Reasons to love Rotary right now
From the August 2016 issue of The Rotarian
Reasons to love Rotary right now
1. Because we are about to eradicate a disease, and you can be a part of it
We are 99.9 percent of the way toward ending polio. As of early June, there were only 16 cases of wild poliovirus in the world, and many think this could be the year we see the last naturally occurring case of polio.
As Rotary and our partners work to eradicate the poliovirus in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the remaining endemic countries, we also continue immunization campaigns in other high-risk countries to ensure that the disease remains gone…