ERADICATING polio through joint projects
In line with the #PolioEndGame and the World Polio Day, RC Ongata Rongai and RC Kikuyu held a polio vaccination and awareness event at Ongata Rongai Hospital where over 900 people attended the event.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, Rotary has helped to reduce polio by 99.9% globally and only three countries have recorded cases of polio. However, if all efforts to eradicate polio were to be halted today, over 200,000 children would be paralyzed each year in the next ten years.
For over 30 years, Rotary has been actively involved in the eradication of polio efforts, and this year it is conducting the #PolioEndGame campaign with an intention of eradicating polio in the three countries where incidences of polio have been reported.
Some of the Activities during this year’s World Polio Day were:
- Awareness to over 900 attendees
- Vaccination of 39 children who were due for polio vaccine at Ongata Rongai Hospital
- Shared cakes, milk, sodas and snacks with children and parents as we appreciated them for bringing their children for vaccination.
- Donated to the DGs initiative of Polio End Game. Over 80% of the RC Kikuyu members have donated since the paybill number was launched.
