BIKE TO END POLIO
The Rotary Club of Cabuyao Bike to End Polio is a fund raising campaign to support the End Polio Now of Rotary International.
Polio is a acute viral infectious disease. It is spread through crowding, unclean conditions and improper sanitation of waste fluids. During the early 20th century, polio devastated many populations around the world, thanks to vaccines developed in the middle of the century, polio is rare in first world countries. Unfortunately, lack thorough vaccination in developing nations make polio a recurring problem in these areas of the world.
Year 1979 when Rotary club take on a project to buy and help deliver polio vaccine to more than six million children in the Philippines. In 1985 Rotary International launches PolioPlus, the first and largest international coordinated private sector support of a public health initiative, with an initial pledge of US$120 million.
The world Health Assembly passes a resolution to eradicate polio, setting up the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. More than 125 countries are polio-endemic.
Polio is a acute viral infectious disease. It is spread through crowding, unclean conditions and improper sanitation of waste fluids. During the early 20th century, polio devastated many populations around the world, thanks to vaccines developed in the middle of the century, polio is rare in first world countries. Unfortunately, lack thorough vaccination in developing nations make polio a recurring problem in these areas of the world.
Year 1979 when Rotary club take on a project to buy and help deliver polio vaccine to more than six million children in the Philippines. In 1985 Rotary International launches PolioPlus, the first and largest international coordinated private sector support of a public health initiative, with an initial pledge of US$120 million.
The world Health Assembly passes a resolution to eradicate polio, setting up the launch of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. More than 125 countries are polio-endemic.
END POLIO NOW WORLD BIGGEST COMMERCIAL
See Rotary Club of Cabuyao "BIKE TO END POLIO" appears in the END POLIO NOW World Biggest Commercial at playtime of 7:41. Please see links
http://thisclose.endpolio.org/en/submissions/993