$200 Million Challenge

Rotary International has received a generous $355 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which Rotary will part match over the next three years, to be used in the fight against polio.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is working to ensure there are no new cases of polio by 2010 and to certify the eradication of the virus three years later. All involved parties believe this goal is attainable,and reaching it will demonstrate that remarkable improvements in health can be achieved even in the most challenging settings in the world.

Rotary's US $200 Million Challenge is Rotary's three-year fundraising commitment to part match the donation.

The resulting $555 million will directly support immunisation campaigns in developing countries, where polio continues to infect and paralyse children, robbing them of their futures and compounding the hardships faced by their families.

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