Perth backs the fight against Polio

Feb 26 2010 by Alison Lowson, Perthshire Advertiser Friday

Dear Editor, – As part of Rotary’s National “Thanks for Life” Campaign, hundreds of Rotary Clubs across Great Britain and Ireland are linking up with schools, businesses, organisations and individuals to hold a range of fund raising events to raise £1 million.

Rotary has worked hard over many years to reach the point where they are now close to stamping out polio and hope that these organised events will encourage more people to get behind the initiative. It is vital that we eradicate polio from the four countries where it remains endemic or the likelihood is that the disease will spread again to the countries that have been cleared.

With public support we can destroy polio. On Saturday, February 27, Tesco supermarkets at both Edinburgh Road and Crieff Road, Perth, are very kindly throwing their doors open to the three local Rotary Clubs to collect donations from shoppers. Customers can also pop along to find out about Rotary’s promise to eradicate polio as well as how to become a member of the worlds largest humanitarian organisation.

Polio is a crippling and sometimes fatal disease and still a very harrowing reality for children in parts of Africa and Asia and threatens children everywhere. Every £1 raised in this campaign will purchase five doses of the special anti polio vaccine. These children will be protected against polio forever.

Perth Rotarians.