Rotary says keep the world polio free
Celebrities like John Cena, a well-known wrestler and Bill and Melinda Gates, who started Microsoft, have in conjunction with Rotary international placed their support behind the project to create more awareness.
The Rotary club of Warmbaths are quite excited about Wednesday 24 October when World Polio day will be celebrated across the globe.
The club, like many others, are part of an awareness campaign with Rotary International to make people aware of this disease that has over the decades affected children’s muscle structures and then inevitably causing them to become disabled.
Celebrities like John Cena, a well-known wrestler and Bill and Melinda Gates, who started Microsoft, have in conjunction with Rotary international placed their support behind the project to create more awareness, to raise funds and ensuring that children are vaccinated.
According to Rotary South Africa is polio free since 24 October 2006. A day that is celebrated to highlight the global success in almost eradicating this disease.
The continuous campaign holds on to the central message that the role players are close to eradicating polio, which is emphasised with a single hand gesture for people to know more about the disease and become involved.
Drummond Hammond, previous president of the Rotary club of Warmbaths, along with Charles Deiner, the current district governor of the Rotary District 9400, told The Post that there are clinics across the country where parents can take their children to be vaccinated at no cost, and they encourage people to continue the trend of a polio free society.
For more on polio programmes or people who wish to get in touch with the Warmbaths club, can follow them on their Facebook page The Rotary Club of Warmbaths District 9400 or by visiting the website www.endpolionow.org(.)
