Ellon Rotary Club hosted another successful corporate quiz night
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A packed Mcdonald Clubhouse enjoyed an excellent social evening and in the process helped Ellon Rotarians to raise over £1000 for local and international projects.
One of the main projects which will benefit from the annual event will be Rotary GBI’s End Polio Now campaign, which works globally in the fight to eradicate polio, a disease which can result in complete paralysis and even death.
Rotary Club of Great Britain and Ireland launched the End Polio Now campaign in 1985 and with vital financial support from the Bill Gates Foundation, have been successful in reducing the number of cases by
99.9 per cent over the past three decades.
When Rotary joined the fight against Polio, 125 countries were affected by the disease.
This has now dropped to just three countries – Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria – all of which are only dealing with just a handful of cases.
To achieve this the organisation has spent around $1.8 billion vaccinating more than 2.5 billion children.
Polio is a virus which manifests in flu-like symptoms before attacking the nervous system leading to paralysis and ultimately death, and routine vaccinations introduced in the UK in 1950s helped to wipe out the disease from the country by the mid-80s.
Organiser Ian Bartlet thanked everyone for coming with a special mention to local businesses LFH Engineering, Auchreddie Renewables, Kenny Low and Craigdon Sport for their support.
In total 17 teams participated in the quiz with the coveted Shield eventually being presented to the winning team Still Game...ish.
The equally sought after Wooden Spoon was ‘won” by the team who called themselves Hoof Hearted.
World Polio Day was marked by Rotary Clubs across the country last week, including a number of prominent public buildings – such as churches and town halls – being lit up in purple to raise awareness of the ongoing battle to end polio.
