Rotary Club of Hitchin Tlehouse will be one of thousands of Rotary clubs across the world taking action on World Polio Day to raise awareness, funds and support to end polio. This vaccine preventable disease still threatens children in parts of the world today.

Here in Hitchin we will be bathing the iconic St Mary's Church in purple light from Saturday 23rd to Sunday 24th October and we will be on the Market Place on World Polio Day with our Iron Lung and lots of information and facts.

Many polio related activities will be using the colour purple, which has become a symbolic colour in the fight against polio, inspired by the colour of the dye painted on the little finger of a child to signify they have received a potentially life-saving polio vaccine.

Our club is very proud to be marking World Polio Day locally and recognising the work of Rotary and our partners and the millions of people involved in so many ways in the fight for a polio free world. Only together can we end polio, a virus that is still potentially just a plane ride away.

We have seen over the past two years with COVID-19, that cases of a disease anywhere, is a threat to everyone, everywhere. Weve also seen the power of vaccines and community togetherness, and how we can all play our part.

We remain committed to working with our communities and our partners to eliminate this potentially deadly virus and make Rotary's dream of a polio free world a reality.