The Bedford Rotary Club held a Virtual Meeting on Friday, June 19 and incorporated a World's Greatest Meal "Cocktails for Polio" event to raise funds for polio immunizations in the final two endemic countries (Afghanistan and Pakistan). Thanks to the work of Rotary clubs around the world, we’ve reduced the number of polio cases by 99.9% and reached more than 2.5 billion children with the vaccine. There are fewer polio cases today than ever before, but if polio is not eradicated, hundreds of thousands of children could be paralyzed.
The virtual event raised more than $270 from 12 participants on the Zoom call and another $500 from a mystery club member after the call – all in honor of our outgoing President, Patty Goggin (2019-2020) and our incoming President, Melissa Taylor (2020-2021). The $770 will be will be tripled to $2,310 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and will help in immunizing children ages 5 and under in endemic and "at risk" countries around the world.
The virtual event raised more than $270 from 12 participants on the Zoom call and another $500 from a mystery club member after the call – all in honor of our outgoing President, Patty Goggin (2019-2020) and our incoming President, Melissa Taylor (2020-2021). The $770 will be will be tripled to $2,310 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and will help in immunizing children ages 5 and under in endemic and "at risk" countries around the world.
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