Archive for October, 2011

 World Polio Day

To celebrate World Polio Day on Monday 24 October, members of the Rotary Club of De Aar , volunteered to help Sister R. Maritz of Montana Clinic at Alpha Primary School.  The Rotarians helped to fill in forms, weighed the learners and checked their teeth. The Grade one learners were given the TD ( Tetanus [...]


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 Polio – History

The US$555 million funding agreement between Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation marks another milestone in Rotary’s 20-year legacy of polio eradication work. Rotary, a volunteer service organization of 1.2 million men and women, made a commitment to immunize the world’s children against polio in 1985 and became a spearheading partner in the [...]


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