Funds into the Foundation come from various types of giving; Centurion members are those that give to the fund on a regular basis, such as a minimum of $100 per annun, Benefactors $1,000 bquest Society membershi $10,000 and the aRch Klumph Society which is $20,000. There are 'higher' society membership up to $1m.
Andrew then producted a small money biox for your small change which all your smalll change can go into altimately for the Foundation. Since 2007 $1.5b has beeen pledged. This money is but one step on erdadication. Rotary has kept Polio on the world agenda.
Bill Gates' enthusiasm for the programme was easy to see.
Over the past three decades, the world has made tremendous progress toward the eradication of polio. In 1988—when wild poliovirus was present in more than 125 countries and paralyzed 350,000 people every year, primarily young children—the World Health Assembly iteamed with Rotary set a goal to eliminate the disease, and the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) was launched. Since then, immunization efforts have reduced the number of cases by more than 99 percent, saving more than 13 million children from paralysis. India stopped the virus in 2011, and today.
in 1994 Americas was certified Polio free
in 2000 Europe was certified Polio free.
in 2013 South EAst Asia was certified as Polio free.
Today polio is found only in Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. In 2016, there were fewer than 40 cases reported globally.
It is extremely tough to reach all children in, and in fact to know where they are.due to war, political, religous ad cultural boundaries.As the nujbers reduce it is very difficult to know where polio is hiding.
The Ebola outbreak benfitted greatly because of the experience that Rotary had developed over many years. Without this experience the death toll could have been much greater.
The number of children saved though the Polio Plus programme is extimated at 122 million.
When we end Polioit will be another milestone in humanity."