While Australia has been free of polio for several decades, Rotary has continued its fight against the life-threatening disease which can infect a person’s spinal cord and cause paralysis.
President of Campsie Rotary, Lyn Bruderlin (pictured right), boarded the train at Wolli Creek and handed a donation of $1,000; other Rotarians met and rode the train at different stations and donated cheques, big and small, for the Rotary polio effort raising over $50,000.
Rotary’s global effort polio-eradication effort has been a stunning success. At present only Afghanistan and Pakistan still report cases of polio.
“Polio is a dreadful disease; many older people would remember sick children coming to school in leg irons,” Mrs Bruderlin said.
“That was before they started giving us the vaccine via injections and then a few years later, via sabine, the oral vaccine.
“Rotary has been fighting to extinguish polio from the planet for more than 30 years and the battle is not over in some countries so we keep trying to do as much as we can for those areas.”
Keeping donation to eradicate polio on track
CAMPSIE Rotarians rode the trains on the Greater Sydney network to raise funds for vaccines in an effort to completely eradicate of polio from the world.