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Saving mothers and children is one of Rotary’s six areas of focus* and so the Theme for the month of April is “Maternal & Child Health”.
Nearly 6 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and their children can live and grow stronger.
*Rotary International is focusing its efforts in six areas to enhance our local and global impact. Rotary’s most successful and sustainable projects and activities tend to fall within the following areas:
- Promoting peace
- Fighting disease
- Providing clean water
- Saving mothers and children
- Supporting education
- Growing local economies
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Now more than ever, we recognize the importance of effective vaccines to protect against disease. As scientists work to develop one to protect all of us from the new coronavirus, we recognize how far we have come this World Immunization Week. This 24-30 April, encourage everyone to immunize their children and themselves against preventable diseases.
The Rotary Foundation has a long history of funding disease prevention and treatment projects that focus on health issues that impact vulnerable communities, like our polio eradication efforts. Successes in these areas have helped us address other global health challenges, including the spread of the coronavirus. Learn how our work fighting polio is supporting the COVID-19 response in communities worldwide. It’s important that we continue funding these projects when our help is needed most. Although this pandemic affects all of us, Rotarians like you continue to take action even in a time of crisis. If you are able to make a donation during World Immunization Week, give to our PolioPlus Fund to support polio eradication efforts and more, or give to our Disaster Response Fund to support our work addressing this pandemic and other emergencies. You’ll be helping to empower Rotarians so that we can keep Doing Good in the World now and in the years to come. We hope you and your family are staying safe in this time of uncertainty. Sincerely, The Rotary Foundation The Rotary Club of Moe
Purple Crocus Project
The Rotary Club of Moe is selling bags of purple crocus bulbs to support End Polio Now, an important global initiative to eradicate polio. These purple bulbs represent the purple dye used to mark the little finger of children who have been vaccinated in endemic countries.
Millions of children across the world now know that a freshly painted purple pinkie means freedom from Polio.
Bulbs are available in packs of 5 for $5.00 per pack. Purchasing these purple crocus bulbs is a way to show your personal support in the fight to end polio.
For more information or to place an order, contact:
Diane – 0408 332 065 or Bryon – 0421 282 078
A Foundation Committee project for the Rotary Club of Moe.
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