Clubs get your committees together for a fundraiser in September..movie night. Can be a "Gold Room" and or hire the entire Movie Theater out for a Combined Club get together with fellow Rotarian's, families and friends.

From Facebook - a post from Sandip Agarwalla

Vanquishing the virus

In its relentless drive to eradicate Polio from the face of the earth, Rotary marches notching up yet another significant milestone !

Africa is on the verge of being declared polio-free.

Health workers overcame violence and conspiracy theories in the Middle East and Africa.

Eradicating polio is hard. It is even harder when politicians and religious leaders fan the conspiracy theory that the polio vaccine is part of a Western plot to sterilise Its citizens, as happened for several years in northern Nigeria. So in 2015 Nigeria’s president, Muhammadu Buhari, decided to set an example. He gave the vaccine to one of his grandchildren on television, before rallying politicians and tribal leaders to join the campaign.

Rotary’s efforts, and those of hundreds of thousands of volunteer Rotarians and from other associated agencies, have paid off. On August 21st Nigeria marked three years since its last documented case of wild polio. That means the country is set to be declared polio-free by the World Health Organisation-backed Global Polio Eradication Initiative. If that happens, probably next year, all of Africa will be officially free of the virus. Polio will remain in only Afghanistan and Pakistan; and one day it will be completely eradicated, like smallpox was in 1980.