Polio programme a Rotary project
The polio eradication programme which Mr O’Sullivan attributes to UNICEF is actually a project of Rotary International. Rotary opened their attack on polio in 1979 with a five-year plan to eliminate the disease in the Philippines.
This went well so the next year they developed similar plans in five other countries. That also proceeded well and in 1985, Rotary took on the huge challenge to end polio in the world by the time of their centennial in 2005.
