"I picked up a Reader's Digest, and there I read that (1)___________________________had eradicated small pox. And this fired my imagination. I thought, 'My gosh, we could do something like that.'" Sir Clem Renouf, then president of Rotary International, convinced Rotarians across the globe to unite against the disease by raising money to fight the virus and by volunteering their time toward that effort.
"Suddenly, we realized that we had the capacity, and the encouragement, as Rotary clubs to do major projects, then the eradication of polio was no longer an impossible dream." Rotary International pledged to raise $120,000,000 to pay for immunizing children against the disease. Rotarians have since (2)___________________________to end polio.
Rotary is now a partner with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for a renewed effort to eradicate polio. The W.H.O. says (3)___________________________ have been immunized against polio.
