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.
Padstow Rotary President Charles Mille said his group caught the train from Revesby to Padstow, however, the Polio train travelled the entire Sydney rail network, and donated $750 to the cause, with over $550,000 raised across Australia in the last five years.
Other Rotarians met and rode the train at different stations and donated cheques, big and small, for the effort.
“This was a great fellowship event and one that allows Rotarians from both sides of the harbour to meet each other and enjoy the ride,” Charles said.
“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.”