Dear Fellow Rotarians,

 

As you make your year-end gifts to charity, please remember Rotary International’s primary goal – the eradication of polio from the face of the earth. 

 

So far this year, there have been 2 case of wild polio virus in Afghanistan and 20 in Pakistan.  You’ve all heard that polio is a plane ride away from the USA.  You probably also heard that there was a case of vaccine--derived polio in New York earlier this year. So polio is now a car ride away from our District.  We are “This Close” to eradicating polio, but polio is “This Close” to us.

 

You might wonder how you can help end the scourge of polio?  Thanks for asking!  You can make a year-end gift to The Rotary Foundation and designate that donation to Polio Plus. Log in to My Rotary and donate online at  https://www.rotary.org/en/donate  The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation will match your gift 2-for-1.  All donations by Rotarians to Polio Plus count toward Paul Harris points and levels. 

 

If you are really ambitions, I invite you to join the Polio Plus Society.  Some 80 Rotarians from D7390 are already members.  You simply pledge to donate $100.00 per year to Polio Plus until polio is only a mention in the history books.  Click here to fill out a membership form!

 

The children of the world thank you for being part of the effort to “End Polio Now”! 

 

Yours in Rotary service,

 

Dave Getz

D7390 Polio Plus Chair