World Polio Day


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Rotary will be celebrating World Polio Day on October 24th. Our Rotary Club will be doing an awareness campaign on social media. Make sure you share our social media posts on October 24th. We will also be encouraging Rotarians to make a donation to end polio. 

In addition there are a number of other World Polio Day Activities:

Locally Rotary District 7090 is inviting all Rotary Clubs and Members to attend an event at the Hamilton Spectator Auditorium. The event starts at 6:00pm with a VR Polio Experience followed by guest speaker Dr. Mark Loeb, World renowned Epidemiologist and Expert on Infectious Diseases – from our very own McMaster U will be speaking about polio and his current study. The event is free

In addition Rotary International will be streaming live from the College of Physicians at 18:30 Philadelphia time (UTC -4), and aim to bring together more than 100,000 viewers around the world www.endpolio.org  or www.rotary.org