“The world owes a deb of gratitude to the Rotarians, healthcare workers and volunteers who have knocked on doors, set up clinics and traveled across countries to make sure children are protected from this awful disease." Bill Gates, 2024

"When I asked Bill Gates, 63, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, why polio, he began, 'Polio is a terrible disease.' An hour later, speaking to a group of Rotarians in Spokane, Washington, he said, “You know, we're going to get to the end of this and Rotary will be the reason that will happen.” Devin Thorpe