$200 Million Challenge

Rotary International has received a generous US$355 million gift from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which Rotary will part match with US$200m  by June 2012, to be used in the fight against polio.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is working to ensure that polio is wiped out. 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 started in 2009 and gave Rotary a three-year fundraising opportunity to part match the donation.

The resulting US$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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