WORLD  POLIO DAY: MAKING HISTORY

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Dear President and Rotary Foundation Director

We are informed by our International PolioPlus committee that a very important event in Rotary history: World Polio day: Making History, will take place on World Polio Day, 24^th October, 2013.

The event will be marked by a worldwide global update on the fight to end polio- poised to be only the second human disease ever eradicated. As you are aware, the eradication of polio has been a long and difficult Rotary program, but when we finish the job, we will have achieved something wonderful --- And Lasting.

Together with UNICEF, WHO and CDC, we have achieved a great deal. We have immunised over two billion children, many time in very difficult circumstances. The result is that today only two countries remain endemic, Afghanistan and Pakistan. India has been declared polio free, and this dreaded virus now stalks only limited areas of Nigeria.

We are in the home stretch, but we are not there yet. We cannot afford to relax, we must keep up the momentum, the energy and the awareness.  We cannot afford to lose all we have strived for over so many years.

May we request your Club marks this day in your program in the week of October 21^st. May we further suggest you make this event more notable and meaningful by making a contribution to End Polio Now.

Thanks to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, your contribution will be matched two for one, a wonderful way to further extend the impact of your gift. We promised the children of the world that we would eradicate polio, and ROTARIANS KEEP THEIR WORD.

We are this close, and getting ever closer, thanks to you as Rotarians.

WE WILL END POLIO NOW.

Sincerely

Don Jago

PDG Don Jago.

Chair, D9800 End Polio Now committee