Over $11,000 is donated to PolioPlus ($191 from each of D7980’s 61 Clubs).

District 7980 is 1st Class!!! – The Board of Directors of the District 7980 Foundation voted tonight to disperse just over $11,000 to The Rotary Foundation for PolioPlus. The donation will be made in name of each of our 61 Rotary Clubs at just over $191 each.

PolioPlus, the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history, is the volunteer arm of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. For more than 25 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease. Today, PolioPlus and its role in the initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal.

By the time the world is certified polio-free, Rotary’s contributions to the global polio eradication effort will exceed US$1.2 billion. This constitutes nearly 14 percent of all contributions to the global budget through 2010 and represents approximately 66 percent of private sector contributions to the initiative. More recently, Rotary is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help raise much needed funds to eradicate polio.

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