We are grateful to the Rotary Foundation and their partners in the GPEI for their unwavering determination to bring an end to this terrible disease.

Every child that is vaccinated against polio brings us closer to eradication.

These are some of the ways children receive their polio vaccines.

In 1985 Rotary launched PolioPlus to immunize every child in the world against polio.

Working with our partners and members of the global health community, together we will end polio. We MUST stay the course.

Passion, Patience and Perseverance: Comparing the Polio Health Crisis to the COVID-19 Pandemic (Video)

The Progress to End Polio

How Rotary became the Heart and Soul of Polio Eradication

There were just three of us at the time. There was so much opposition, but we had faith that this is just the beginning of a whole new horizon for Rotary. If we, all of us, knew then what we know now, I doubt we would have taken it on. It was a huge dream.

“This short documentary was filmed on the ground in India. Our Co-founder, Soren Dickens, traveled to Delhi with a Rotary group to film Rotarians distributing a vaccine to children in a worldwide effort to eradicate polio. The trip took the group to places such as the majestic Taj Mahal, "The Pink City", and Amer Fort, while also exposing the group to the villages where the vaccinations took place.”

"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