2011 Calendar
Photography Competition
The Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh invites anyone with a camera to submit a photograph displaying life in the Moorabool Shire including people, places and the local environment. Imagination is your only limitation!
Twelve winning entrants selected by a judging panel will have their photograph and name published in the Rotary Club of Bacchus Marsh 2011 Calendar.
All proceeds from sale of the calendar will go directly to Rotary’s US$200 million challenge to eradicate polio.
All entries must be submitted by 5pm Friday 23 July 2010.
Entry forms also available at:
Devenny Payne Taxation and Business Services
183 Main Street, Bacchus Marsh
WITH YOUR HELP POLIO WILL BE DEFEATED!
Rotary US$200 million Challenge to Eradicate Polio
In 1985 Rotary launched Polio Plus, a multimillion dollar initiative to immunise all the world’s children against polio. It was the most ambitious humanitarian program ever undertaken by a private entity. Rotary’s commitment was so great that the World Health Assembly resolved in 1988 to wipe out polio, a disease that had killed and paralysed for 5,000 years.
In conjunction with the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Rotary has worked tirelessly to rid the world of the wild poliovirus. The generous support of Rotarians worldwide has seen Rotary contribute nearly $US800 million to keep alive the dream of a polio-free world.
Prior to Polio Plus, more than 125 countries were polio endemic and the disease killed or crippled 1,000 people a day, most of them children. Since the launch of Polio Plus more than two billion children have received the oral polio vaccine; five million children destined to be polio victims are walking today and enjoying a better life because of global immunisation; reported polio cases have dropped 99.8% (from 350,000 a year in 1988 to fewer than 2,000 a year today) and only four countries (Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan) remain endemic. Due to the efforts of Rotary and its global partners, the world is on the threshold of eradicating the wild poliovirus.
The greatest challenge in the battle against polio today is financial. Despite the enormous resources already committed, more money is urgently needed to reach the children in the four remaining polio-endemic countries. In recognition of Rotary’s resolve, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded Rotary a US$350 million grant. In return, Rotary is committed to raising US$200 million by June 2012.
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