Rotary Appeal deserves support
Donations collected in the annual Rotary street appeal in Christchurch tomorrow will go toward meeting a single goal, ridding the world of polio and five other preventable diseases by 2005. The street appeal organised by the Rotary Club of Christchurch normally does not name the specific charity collections are organised for.
It was decided as a result of the ambitious global scale of the Rotary Polioplus campaign to make an exception this year, as part of an effort to increase awareness of Polioplus. At the 1986 Rotary Council on Legislation club representatives from
throughout the world formally endorsed the idea of eradicating polio from the world by the year 2005. This year is also the date of the Rotary hundred year anniversary. The Polioplus programme is intended to end all preventable deaths of children by educating parents and Government leaders about the importance and necessity of immunisation.
The “plus” stands for the other five deadly childhood diseases that exist in addition to polio.
The other five diseases the immunisation programme will tackle are tuberculosis, diphtheria, measles, pertussis
(whooping cough), and tetanus. Through the Polioplus scheme the Rotary Foundation will provide all the polio vaccines required for up to five consecutive years for any approved immunisation programme of a national or regional health agency. Rotary will also make available to any country, upon invitation, a team of experts to help plan and implement national days of immunisation against polio.
Local Rotary members will be on Christchurch streets collecting from 7.45 a.m. tomorrow morning.
The scope of the ravages produced by polio in the developing world is obscured by more dramatic “newsworthy” events.
The bleak fact is that statistics show that today 750 children will be crippled by polio and another 75 will die. Contributions to the Rotary Club of Christchurch Polioplus appeal may also be sent to P.O. Box 13084, Christchurch.
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