Progress for Rotary's Challenge for polio eradication

Rotarians have raised about US$202.6 million for Rotary's Challenge.

By the time the world is certified polio-free, Rotary's contributions to the global polio eradication effort will exceed $1.2 billion. This constitutes nearly 14 percent of all contributions to the global budget through 2010 and represents approximately 66 percent of private sector contributions to the initiative. More recently, Rotary is working with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to help raise much needed funds to eradicate polio.

As long as polio threatens even one child anywhere in the world, children everywhere remain at risk. The stakes are that high. Read more about Rotary International's promise to the world's children to eradicate polio.