Rotary has been involved in attempts to eradicate the wild Polio virus for more than 30 years, and it is heartening to learn that new cases across the world have fallen from more than 1,000 a day in the 1980s to less than 50 in the world so far this year.
The ‘Purple for Polio’ campaign is the latest initiative to finally rid the world of the remaining pockets of this terrible virus and as part of this campaign, Rotary clubs around the country have been buying crocus corms (proceeds from which go directly to the End Polio campaign) to plant and show their support for this final push.
Swanage & Purbeck Rotary’s intrepid gang of planters were out last week planting approximately 5,000 corms, the benefits of which will be there for all to see next spring when the purple (of course) crocuses flower.