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Kids Helping Kids: Pennies for Polio Contest

Racine Rotary is asking students to compete in Pennies for Polio to win fabulous prizes and help eradicate polio around the world.

Classrooms throughout the community can win big in a number of ways by helping Racine Rotary collect pennies to eradicate polio across the globe.

Polio primarily effects kids under the age of five and has been eliminated in every country on earth save three: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan, according to a news release from Racine Rotary.

The four-shot vaccine series only costs about 50 cents per child and is administered during a baby's first year.

So, to help give children in every country a better chance at a healthy life, Rotary is asking students across the area to collect as many pennies as possible by Sept. 28 and Party on the Pavement.

One representative from each classroom must bring all the pennies they have to enter a contest for some pretty great prizes. The winning elementary school class will visit the Racine Zoo for a free animal demonstration, and the winning high school class will win 20 VIP bleacher seats and tours of Rotary's Post Prom 2014.

Money collected will help deliver polio vaccines to children all over the world to keep the disease at bay and finish eradicating it from Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan. More, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has challenged Rotarians around the world to be successful in the push to end polio with a $150 million matching grant.

To learn more about Rotary International’s polio work, visit www.endpolio.org/en/blog. For more information about Pennies for Polio, contact Laura Sumner Coon at 498-9425. 


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