World Polio Day

 

OCTOBER 24, 2025

How Will You Celebrate?
 

• Host Rotary Night: Arrange with your local ball clubs and host a Rotary Night at the ball game. Both major and minor league teams have pitched in to help Rotary "strike out Polio".

• Organize a walk-a-thon, bike-a-thon or skate-a-thon: Find Rotarians, Rotarian Fellowships, athletic groups or other community members who want to participate and ask them to solicit pledges for miles or kilometers walked, pedaled or skated.

• Pints for Polio Event: Arrange with a local pub/winery to host a Pints Night with portion of proceeds going to Polio
   
• Pies for Polio Event: Challenge your members, Club sponsors to build awareness for Polio by holding a fundraiser to "Take a Pie for Polio". Get creative. 

• Restaurant Fundraiser: The way it works is you plan the fundraiser and estimate a certain number of people to fill the restaurant for lunch or dinner. The receipts go into a box and the restaurant pays your organization a certain percentage of the take, typically 15-20%.

• Purple Pinkie Promotion: Arrange with a local bakery or some members to make donut bars and ice them as shown with a "purple pinkie." Sell to your members, at the grocery store, at the bakery, anywhere - and Raise money and awareness of PolioPlus and Rotary.

 

PolioPlus Presentations

D-5810 PolioPlus Chairperson, Ross Rolirad is available to conduct PolioPlus Presentations District-Wide either in-person or via a Zoom call.  His presentations cover the disease, the history of Rotary's Polio Eradication efforts, our current status and much more!  Ross has participated in two (2) National Immunization Days (NIDs) in the past (India & Ethiopia) and will also share some of those "hands-on" experiences.  Please contact him via e-mail at texomaross@yahoo.com so you can discuss scheduling & expectations (both ways).  Please plan to schedule him as speaker at least a couple of weeks in the future.  He may also be reached by phone at 903-327-4332.