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World Polio Eradication with the Rotary Club of

Cornwall Sunrise

By Christine Ouellet carried forward by the 25,700 women
and men of the 737 Rotary Clubs in
ctober 24th, is World Polio Canada, especially the members of
ODay. Bette Miller, past District the two Rotary Clubs right here in
Governor Local 7040, joined the Cornwall.
Rotary Club of Cornwall Sunrise
When Rotary and its partners
as soon as women were admitted to launched the Global Polio Eradication
the club in 1989 and since then, she Initiative in 1985, polio was
has been fighting relentlessly to end
paralyzing more than 1,000 children
Polio.
every day. Polio cases have dropped
On Monday, October 18, the “End by 99.9 percent, from 350,000 cases
Polio Now” flag was raised in front in 1988 in 125 countries to just 2
of Cornwall’s Justice Building to cases of wild poliovirus in 2021:
mark World Polio Week. Mayor one case in Afghanistan and one in
Glen Grant and Rotarians from the Pakistan. Rotary and its partners
Rotary Clubs of Cornwall Sunrise remain committed to the end.
and Cornwall gathered to mark Since 1985, Rotary has contributed L to R Jennifer Deschamps, president RC Cornwall Sunrise, Mayor Glen
the occasion. The Rotary Clubs Grant, Dean Stanley, Past president RC Cornwall Photo Submitted
US$2.1 billion, and its members have
also presented the mayor with 450 logged countless volunteer hours to billion doses of oral polio vaccine. end polio include the World Health
specially developed tulip bulbs that help immunize more than 3 billion Organization (WHO), the Center for
produce distinctive red and yellow To sustain this progress, and
children. Today, 19 million people Disease Control (CDC), UNICEF,
blooms. Look for them in the City’s who might have become paralyzed are protect all children from polio, and Gavi the Vaccine Alliance (
flower beds in Spring 2022. Rotary has committed to raising US
able to walk. Each year vaccination $50 million per year in support of https://polioeradication.org/who-we-
In 1985, Rotarians around the prevents an estimated 650,000 cases global polio eradication efforts. The are/partners/ ).
world made a promise to all the of polio. In 2019, more than 430 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Please visit https://www.endpolio.
children of the world to make polio million children in more than 40 will match Rotary’s commitment org/ to learn more about Rotary and
eradication the #1 priority. It is countries were vaccinated using 1.2 2:1. Other partners in the fight to their fight to eradicate polio.

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community spirit, including at the Olympic level,” she says.