Penny Offer - National Immunization Day
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Rotary Club of Richmond
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Sep 02, 2015 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
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Join us to listen to the amazing journey of PDG Penny and Chris Offer, they joined a Rotary International team of volunteers from Canada, Switzerland, Australia and the United States to give Polio vaccinations in rural India in late February.
Polio is a life-threatening and crippling virus, which largely attacks children under the age of five years of age. It invades the nervous system and can cause irreversible paralysis in a matter of hours. There is no cure for it but it can be prevented. Polio vaccine, given multiple times, almost always protects a child for life.