Pershore Abbey Purple for Polio
P
ershore Rotary lit up our
ancient Abbey in purple on
Thursday 24th October to mark
World Polio Day, and raised over
£300 from a street collection in
Pershore to buy vaccine to help
eradicate the disease.
Purple is the symbolic colour in
the fight against polio, inspired
by the colour of the dye painted
on the little finger of a child to
signify they have received a
potentially life-saving polio
vaccine.
Over 400 million children in up to
sixty countries have to receive
multiple doses of the polio
vaccine annually with around 2
billion doses being administered.
If we ease up on our work now it
is estimated there will be at least
200,000 cases annually all over
the world within 10 years.
Pershore Rotary’s President, Ken
Rowe, commented “We were proud
to mark World Polio Day on 23rd
October, recognising the work of
Rotary and our partners and the
millions of people involved in the
fight for a polio free world.
Together we can end polio once
and for all.”
Since Rotary and its partners
launched the Global Polio
Eradication Initiative (GPEI) over
30 years ago, the incidence of polio
has plummeted by more than
99.99%, from about 350,000 cases
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a year in 125 countries to just 33
cases in 2018 and with just two
countries, Afghanistan and
Pakistan, reporting new cases of
wild poliovirus.
Rotary has committed to raising
US$50 million each year to support
global polio eradication efforts,
with that funding matched 2-to-1
by The Bill and Melinda Gates
Foundation. Rotary has
contributed more than US$1.9
billion to ending polio since 1985.
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