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Rotary International - PolioPlus

The PolioPlus program provides funding for mass immunization campaigns as well as support for social mobilization, surveillance, and laboratories to help carry out the final stages of global polio eradication. Rotarians have raised funds that amount to more than US$ 650 million in support and provided hundreds of thousands of volunteer hours. Rotary is a spearheading partner with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, and U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in the initiative to eradicate polio worldwide.

As a result of their efforts, two billion children under age five have received the polio vaccine, five million people who might otherwise be paralyzed are walking today.

5,00,000 new cases of polio are prevented each year, and the number of polio cases has declined by 99 percent worldwide.

The US$100 Million Challenge :

Rotary's leadership in the polio eradication effort was recognised in 2007 with a $100 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The funds must be spent during the 2008 calendar year on immunization and other polio eradication initiatives and matched within three years.

Rotary's $100 million challenge is a three-year fundraising effort to match the grant. Each of the nearly 33,000 rotary clubs in the world is being asked to raise atleast $1,000 annually for the challenge, which ends 31st December, 2010. The $200 million generated by the grant and match will be a vital catalyst to help achieve Rotary's top goal of ending polio worldwide.