The Waterfront Rotary Club has a long association with The Rotary Foundation's (TRF) efforts to eradicate polio a goal which they are 'this close' to achieving.

Transmitted from person to person, polio is an infectious disease that causes irreversible paralysis and even death. Though no cure for polio exists, safe and effective vaccines can protect people from contracting the disease. Since earnest eradication efforts began in the mid-1990s, polio has been eliminated in more than 120 countries.

In 2010, to coincide with the Soccer World Cup, Waterfront Rotary Charter Member, June Member, championed a project to "Kick Polio out of Africa". A soccer ball, signed by dignitaries in Cape Town, including the late Archbishop Desmond Tutu and then Mayor of Cape Town, Dan Plato, began a transcontinental journey from Cape Town to Cairo.

We'll post more about this remarkable journey, and the equally remarkable eradication of Polio in Africa just ten years after, in 2020.