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Rotary Pershore is partnering with thousands of Rotary Clubs around the world this week to support World Polio Day.
Rotary members in Britain and Ireland are organizing Purple4Polio events to raise awareness and donate to the Rotary campaign to end polio now and forever.
In Pershore, the club will prepare its green fingers by planting 5,000 corms of purple crocus at Pershore College on Tuesday with the help of students and volunteer staff.
A club spokesman said, "Purple crocus has become a symbol of Rotary's fight to end polio, because the purple color represents the color of the dye placed on the child's finger to show that he was immune to the disease.
"Around the country, nearly 2.5 million purple crocuses will be planted on the occasion of World Polio Day, which will add to the millions planted in recent years, which will become a purple carpet. next spring.
"Since Rotary and its partners launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative more than 30 years ago, the incidence of polio has dropped by more than 99.99%. from about 350,000 cases per year in 125 countries to only 22 cases in 2017 and only three countries still endemic: Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.
"Although tremendous progress has been made, the final stages of any trip are often some of the most difficult – 2018 has been tough, with 14 cases in the first eight months of the year.
"However, extensive global environmental sampling around the world has made the highlighting and mobilization against the threats to eradication easier, more focused and often more effective.
"This again underscores the challenges the world faces in making polio the second most common human disease ever eradicated."
To learn more about Rotary in Pershore, the campaign against polio and more, visit pershore.rotary1100.org or contact Bob Marchant at [email protected] or 07850 996732.
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