We support End Polio Now

We are proud to be a top polio fund raising club in Oregon. Since 2007, our club has  raised $108,782 and counting towards the goal of ending polio forever. In 2019, our club was awarded a Service Award for a Polio Free World by District 5100. We hope you will join us in supporting this essential cause.

1. Your gift will improve lives.

Today, 20 million people who would otherwise be paralyzed by polio are walking,
and 1.5 million people who would otherwise have died are alive.

2. Your gift will invest in the future.

If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year. A polio-free world will be a healthier world for children everywhere.

3. Your gift will improve child health.

Polio surveillance networks and vaccination campaigns also monitor children for other health problems, like vitamin deficiency and measles, so we can address them sooner.

4. Your gift will lower health care costs.

The global effort to eradicate polio has already saved more than $27 billion in health
care costs since 1988, and expects to save $14 billion more by 2050.

5. Your gift will make history.

Polio eradication will be one of history’s greatest public health achievements, with
polio following smallpox to become only the second human disease eradicated from
the world.

We need your help

At the end of the 1980s, more than 350,000 children were paralyzed by polio every year. Today, Rotary and its partners have reduced the incidence of polio by 99.9%. However, until we see the last of the poliovirus, eradication efforts need additional funding to:

• Immunize more than 400 million children against polio every year.
• Improve disease surveillance systems to detect any poliovirus in a person or the environment.
• Hire more than 150,000 health workers to go door to door to find every child.