My Rotary Club (Elthorne Hillingdon - www.hillingdonrotary.org.uk) ran a very special event to raise funds to help meet our commitment to the $200 million challenge set by Bill & Melinda Gates. Rotary in Britain and Ireland (RIBI) used the anniversary of the founding of Rotary (February 23rd) to hold a week's worth of events (running from February 20th to February 27th) specifically with this objective. On Saturday February 27th we held a Gala event – three course dinner, plus a one-hour one-woman show, Royal Mistresses, starring Jean Heard, for the extremely reasonable price of £25 per head, with all profits from the ticket price, plus any additional efforts during the evening going towards the Gates Challenge. During the course of the evening we raised a total of £2,100, and our other activities during the week took us to £2,750.
This week, Rotary has been active with the UN & Red Cross in West Africa - targetting the inoculation of 87 million children - we hope this will stamp out this crippling disease from the area and make the whole of Africa polio-free.
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