Footballer David Beckham has become the latest in a long line of celebrities to endorse Rotary International’s End Polio Now campaign.
In a comment posted on his Facebook page, the footballing superstar said: “As a UNICEF Ambassador I helped to immunise children against polio in Sierra Leone. We are now ‘this close’ to ending this paralysing disease for good. Let’s make history and End Polio Now. Join me, UNICEF, Rotary and others in the fight to end polio.”
Since making the pledge to eradicate polio in 1985, Rotary International, in partnership with other health agencies has reduced the number of cases of polio by 99 per cent.
Rotary International and its partners is now working to eliminate this last one percent to make sure that the illness is eradicated for good.
