Rotary International & District 7610
Members who pledge to donate $100/year to eradicate polio become part of this society.
What is District 7610 Polio Plus Society?
This president was a member of the Rotary Club of Albany, NY and was diagnosed with Polio at this age.
Who is Franklin Delano Roosevelt? What is 39?
More than this many children in total were vaccinated in 2023.
What is 400 million?
This is the amount District 7610 gave to Polio in Rotary Year 2023-2024 (Both cash & DDF) .
What is $147,182?
Hand-operated tricycles, access to clean water, additional medical treatments, insecticide-treated bed nets, soap & hygiene supplies and Vitamin A supplements.
What is the PLUS in Polio Plus?
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than this many years.
What is 45 years?
This "King" was vaccinated for Polio on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1956.
Who is Elvis Presley?
Today, polio remains endemic in these 2 countries.
What are Afghanistan & Pakistan?
This is the club with the highest donations to Polio in RY 2023-2024.
What is Herndon-Reston?
This vitamin, often given alongside the polio vaccine, has helped prevent 1.25 million deaths by decreasing susceptibility to infectious diseases.
What is Vitamin A?
Rotary is a founding partner of this world-wide effort.
What is Global Polio Eradication Initiative?
This actress had polio and spoke at a UNICEF campaign in 2000.
In 1995 health workers & volunteers immunized 165 million children in these 2 countries in one week.
What are India and China?
This is the number of clubs that exceeded their goal for Polio by more than 10%,
What is 33 out of 58?
Who is Martha Lillard who has been in an iron lung since she was 5 years old?
Rotary International launched Polio Plus in this year with an initial fundraising target of $120 million.
When was 1985?
This M*A*S*H* star was diagnosed with polio at age 7.
Who is Alan Alda?
This was the first country to get Rotary support in eradicating Polio.
What is the Philippines?
This is the total number of clubs that entered and achieved their Polio Goal in Rotary Club Central.
What is 48?
In 1955 this Dr. developed a vaccine that was “safe & effective.”
Who is Dr. Jonas Salk?
Rotary has contributed more than this dollar amount to fight polio.
What is 2.6 billion dollars?
This Mexican artist, featured in "Coco", had her leg washed with walnut water after she contracted polio in 1913.
Who is Frida Kahlo?
These 2 countries were the very first and the latest to be declared free from wild polio.
What are the Philippines - 1979 & Nigeria - 2020
This individual is the Polio Plus Sub-Committee Chair for District 7610.
Who is PDG Sheila Brennan?
In 1960 Dr. Albert Sabin received the license from the US Government for this immunization.
What is the Oral Polio vaccine?