Running to End Polio Now

Here it goes...Marathon #2! I've been training for nearly 4 weeks - for the Rotterdam Marathon on 10 April 2011. I'm running the marathon in support of Rotary's efforts to End Polio Now!

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I am asking every Rotarian, Rotary Club, and individual I come in contact with to support me per mile, or to donate any amount regarded appropriate.

£1 per Mile = £26

50p per Mile = £13

25p per Mile = £6.50

Goal… Raise £2,600 to eradicate polio.

£1 = 5 polio vaccines. So £2,600 will vaccinate 13,000 children!

Amazingly, polio is completely preventable! Immunizing every child until transmission stops will completely eradicate the infectious disease. Thanks to Rotary and its partners, the world has seen polio cases plummet by more than 99 percent, preventing five million instances of child paralysis and 250,000 deaths. But the polio cases represented by that final 1 percent are the most difficult and expensive to prevent. That is why it is so important to generate the funding needed to ‘End Polio Now’. To fail is to invite a polio resurgence that would condemn millions of children to lifelong paralysis in the years ahead.

With your support...I will run the Rotterdam Marathon in honor of every child who has lost their ability to run and walk due to the transmission of the polio virus. With your support … I will run the Rotterdam Marathon for every human being who suffers from this crippling disease. With your support…I will to run the Rotterdam Marathon to eradicate polio. With your support…we will insure that polio never again robs a child’s ability to walk and run. I need your support!