Giving

• For as little as 60 cents, a child can be protected from polio.
• $50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness.
• $500 can launch an antibullying campaign and create a safe environment for children.

Our goal of eradicating this disease is closer than ever.

As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we’ve reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since Rotary’s first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.

We’ve helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. So far, Rotary has contributed more than $1.8 billion toward eradicating the disease worldwide.

Explore the history of Rotary and polio eradication.

In 2020, the World Health Organization declared the African region to be wild-polio free after three years of no new cases. Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.

One way to support Rotary’s polio eradication efforts is to join the Polio Plus Society. Members of the Polio Plus Society commit to donating a minimum of $100 annually towards Rotary’s End Polio Now initiative until the world is officially polio free, and receive a special Polio Plus pin. Another way is to make a one time or recurring donation using the Donate button below. Thank you for supporting Rotary’s effort to eradicate polio.

The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty. Here are our six areas of focus.

Charity Navigator, an independent evaluator of charities in the U.S., has placed The Rotary Foundation in its top ten list: Best Charity Everyone Has Heard Of.

With your help, we can make lives better in your community and around the world.