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Estimating on the early side of 5 PM, we'll end up back at Broadway Bowling for a Pints for Polio social event. Broadway will chip in $1 for every pint sold and we are grateful for their generosity and co-sponsoring the Pints event with us!
The Rotary Club of Portland was established over a century ago in 1915 and is the world's 177th Rotary ClubThe object of the club is to encourage and foster the principle of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster the following ideals:
The development of acquaintances as an opportunity for service;
The promotion of high ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
About End Polio Now
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year