24/10/2025
Today is World Polio Day. Since 1988, Rotary clubs all over the world, including the Rotary Club of Brighton, have been raising money, tripled by the Gates Foundation to fund the elimination of this dreadful disease.
Until recently, wild polio was endemic in just two countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan, but conflicts in Gaza and Sudan have disrupted immunization and cases have been reported there recently. We need to redouble our efforts and finish the job, so that polio follows smallpox into oblivion.
You can help Rotary to do this by donating whatever you can afford by text. Go to the Rotary Club of Brighton's website at www.rotarybrighton.com to find out how.
