Rotary launched the PolioPlus program in 1985 with a promise to children everywhere that one day, they won’t have to fear being paralyzed by polio. It has been a long and challenging endeavour to contain wild poliovirus to just two countries, Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Led by the City of Rouyn-Noranda, in partnership with the Rotary Club of Rouyn-Noranda, the project aims to transform a vacant lot that has been empty for several years into a gathering place combining nature, culture, and civic life.
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.
