A momentous End Polio Now promotion week for Rotary in Western Scotland climaxed on Tuesday with the opening of the Full Circle Polio Photo Exhibition.
The thought provoking exhibition, taking place in the foyer of the Mitchell Library in Glasgow opened to the public on 25 February and runs until the 4th March.
The exhibition depicts the fight against polio through the photographs of London polio survivor and advocate Gautam Lewis who, thanks to Rotary, recently returned to his birthplace of Kolkata, India, to immunize children against the disease.
The massive global undertaking of polio eradication led by Rotary and its partners was further illustrated by the images of photographer Jean-Marc Giboux who has documented the battle against polio in its remaining strongholds of India, Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan throughout the past decade.
More than one hundred invited Rotarians and guests attended the opening, including members of the Pakistani and Indian Communities in Scotland as well as Rotary International Director Gordon McInally and his wife Heather, Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland President Nominee Jim Moulson, Rotary District Governor Catherine Stewart and her husband Jim and Past Rotary District Governor Drew Hughes.
The exhibition, organised by Rotary District 1230, was made possible by the kind donation of the Mitchell Library by the Lord Provost of the City of Glasgow.
Within the last seven days Rotary in West Scotland has been responsible for taking part in the worldwide initiative to beam the ‘End Polio Now’ pledge on iconic building, lighting up three sites in the West of Scotland: The City Chambers in Glasgow, Culzean Castle and the iconic Greenock Town Hall on the River Clyde.
26/02/09
