World Polio Day 2016
Monday 24th. October 2015Ballymoney Rotary joined with Ballymoney & District Gardening Club, U3A & Inner Wheel and planted 5,000 purple crocuses to celebrate World Polio Day at the verge adjacent to St. James, Newbridge & Portrush Road.
Richard Orr, President of Ballymoney Rotary Club said "For over 30 years Rotary has been working hard to rid the world of polio. We are closer than ever to wiping out this terrible disease that can kill or severely disable children".
The purple crocus is a symbol of Rotary’s worldwide campaign to eradicate polio, with its colour representing the purple dye used to mark the finger of a child who has been immunised. Rotary clubs in the Great Britain & Ireland will be planting over six million purple crocuses this year as part of it's Purple4Polio partnership project with the Royal Horticultural Society.
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