Learn more about Rotary’s remarkable efforts to END POLIO  NOW.

Watch the video and follow the trail of the polio vaccine that is doing so much to end this vicious disease.

PolioPlus is the most ambitious program in Rotary’s history. It aims at nothing less than eradicating the dread disease of polio from the world. For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease.The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has given a challenge grant of $255 million to Rotary International’s efforts to eradicate polio worldwide. The challenge is for Rotary International to raise a matching $200 million within three years. Rotary is committed to that goal.Rotary will spend the initial $100 million within one year in direct support of immunization activities carried out by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative , spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO) , Rotary International, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) , and UNICEF .

District 5300 help
Click here to read Gov. Gene Hernandez's request to District 5300 Rotarians for help in eradicating polio.

Feed the pig
The Polio Pig makes the rounds at each lunch meeting of the Rotary Club of Las Vegas West. We feed him cash to help end the scourge of polio.

The Rotary Club of Las Vegas West shares the goal of Rotary International to eradicate polio from the world. Las Vegas West Rotarians vow to do all they can to achieve it. As one of more than 32,000 Rotary clubs around the world, Las Vegas West has accepted the challenge to help Rotary International match the $255 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation within three years. In addition, individual Las Vegas West Rotarians have pledged to join Rotary's army of volunteers to actually give the drops of life in national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

Your help
You can contribute to PolioPlus or any other of the humanitarian missions of Rotary International.

What they are saying

“We have very few opportunities to improve the world’s public health in a permanent way, and this is one. We are closer to this goal than ever before. All four of the remaining polio-endemic countries (India, Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan) are largely on track to reach very ambitious milestones.”
Dr. Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization

"This partnership is a historic milestone - and timely opportunity - for Rotary through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative to help eradicate a disease that once devastated a thousand lives a day. I know that we as Rotarians will accept the challenge and do our part to finish the job."
Wilfrid Wilkinson, former RI President

"The funds made possible through the Gates Foundation grant will help the Global Polio Eradication Initiative scale up its efforts to provide oral polio vaccine to children in those isolated locations where it's most needed. This important contribution will improve the capacity to protect vulnerable children from this debilitating disease."
Ann Veneman, executive director of UNICEF

"As a government agency, we think it's wonderful that our private-sector colleagues have taken a leadership role in something as important as polio eradication. Their participation is absolutely critical."
Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the Centers for Disease Control