Milestone: Taking on polio

Published 1:58 pm Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Sequim Sunrise Rotary members recently donated $1,820 to Rotary’s global polio eradication effort. A partnership with Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation matched this amount two-to-one, bringing the equivalent raised to $5,460.

Rotary and its partners have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children, mobilized public support for ending polio, contributed more than $1 billion to the global polio eradication effort and helped solicit financial support from donor governments resulting in more than $9 billion in contributions.