ERADICATE POLIO
Let's Do It!We have a “Take the pig to work” campaign.  “Franklin” is passed weekly from member to member to be taken to work , to meeting and events during the week.  At the next meeting the amount collected is announced and Franklin is passed on. The new keeper gives an elevator speech and takes the pig. Some members have opted to keep “Juan” in there office instead  (that’s Juan of the other little Polio Piggies we have!) And others have decided to make a cash donation but everyone is involved.

I, as President, have my own pig to take  to businesses, churches and organizations, to speak at City Council meetings, and open houses and to meet with the principals at local schools to raise polio awareness through reading programs. The Polio Pigs  have been seen on the local TV station and in  newspapers.

On a more serious note, Sunrise Rotary will  partner with the Boulder City Hospital for more  awareness and we will man a booth at the Chamber of Commerce’s Spring Jamboree in May.  On April 17th, will hold   a “Polio Shoot and BBQ” fundraiser planned at the local Desert Lakes Shooting Club.

Rotary International has made it a number-one priority  when it began the  PolioPlus Program in 1985 as the first and largest internationally-coordinated private sector support of  a public health campaign.  The program’s goal was to have a polio free world  by the year 2000, a goal set in 1988. This did not happen! As a result  of the efforts of Rotary International and its global partners over 2 billion children have received oral polio vaccine.

Rotary has received a $100 Million Challenge from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation as well as a $3.5 Million Challenge from the Google Foundation. There are  others who have and will join in our fight to stamp out this crippling disease.

Each and every Rotary Club is being asked to contribute at least $1,000 annually for the next three years.  With the nearly 33,000 clubs around the world this should result in almost a full match of $100 million. These efforts will be a vital catalyst in support of polio eradication, however, more will be needed to finish the job.  Rotary, along with its partners in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and others will continue the fight until the job is done.

What is Boulder City Sunrise Rotary’s part?  Sunrise Rotary’s vision for the 2011-2012 year will be to buy into this three year project. First with making our own club aware of  polio and the PolioPlus project. Second, a community awareness program and then with fundraising efforts in our immediate club, our family of Rotary and in our community.

(Information has been taken from Rotary Internationals website and other Rotary informational sources.)

ERADICATE POLIO
Let's Do It!