Rotary of Windsor-Walkerville

Join us today, Sunday, April 26, 2026, at Malden Park to celebrate #EarthDay Windsor-Essex! 🌱🌍 From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., enjoy a free family-friendly celebration that features over 60 environmental organizations, hands‑on activities, arts and crafts, games, face painting, food vendors, and live entertainment throughout the day. More details at: https://citywindsor.ca/residents/environment/public-involvement/earth-day-windsor-essex

Today marks the start of #WorldImmunisationWeek, where we acknowledge the power of safe vaccines in protecting people around the world from deadly diseases.

Since Rotary International launched the campaign to eradicate polio, we have helped vaccinate close to 3 billion children.

Those vaccines have prevented 20 million cases of paralysis, and given people a future they otherwise wouldn't have had.

Prior to vaccines, people who contracted polio were not so lucky. In this article, the World Health Organization (WHO) tells the personal story of Éliane Fuseau, who contracted polio as a young child in 1950s France - before vaccines were widely available. Her experience illustrates how devastating the disease is for individuals and families.

https://www.who.int/europe/news-room/feature-stories/item/polio-altered-their-future--remembering-a-time-before-vaccination

#EndPolio