Kingston Rotarians take the fight against polio to the streets (From Surrey Comet)
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End Polio Now: Kingston Rotary Club raises £200
10:50am Monday 25th February 2013 in News By Jon Sharman, Reporter
Kingston Rotarians Roshni Barrass, 9, Pauline Colley, Brian Stickland and Nalini Barrass braved the snow on Saturday.
Members of Kingston Rotary Club shrugged off the snow on Saturday to raise more than £200 for a campaign to end polio.
Volunteers spent hours in Eden Walk, Kingston, to help Rotary International’s efforts to improve vaccination against the disease in Nigeria, Pakistan, and Afghanistan – the last countries where it is present.
Britain has been polio-free since the 1960s.
They handed out purple crocuses which symbolise the purple marks put on children’s fingers after they are vaccinated. A single dose of the vaccine costs about 50p.
Kingston Rotarians have been involved with the End Polio Now campaign since 1985.
For more information visit www.kingstonrotaryclub.org.uk/end-polio-now
