The Rotary Club of Emporium donates $500.00 to PolioPlus during The World’s Greatest Meal to Help End Polio. Polio known as Poliomyelitis or Infants Paralysis is transmitted through contaminated water & food or contact with an infected person, can be fatal and there is no cure. In 1985 Rotary launched its Polio Plus Campaign. Rotary has contributed more than $1.7 billion & countless hours to immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. Rotary will raise $50 million a year for the next 3 years with every dollar to be matched with $2 additional dollars by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More than one million Rotarians have donated their time & personal resources to end polio. Today only 3 countries in the world have never stopped the transmission of the polio virus; Pakistan, Afghanistan & Nigeria.
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