Today is World Polio Day, to mark the day I teamed up with the Rotary Club of Bilston & Wolverhampton West and local school children from Bilston C of E Primary School.
We spent a morning planting crocuses at the Bert Williams Leisure Centre in Bilston.
Rotary clubs worldwide help to plant millions of purple crocuses every year to raise awareness for efforts to end polio by adding a splash of purple to our communities.
The reason Rotary choose (purple) crocuses is because when a child receives their life saving polio drops on mass polio immunisation days in many countries their little finger is painted with a purple dye so it is clear they have received their life saving vaccine.
It was great to be able to talk to the children before we began planting about the significance of World Polio Day and the need to eradicate the life threatening and disabling polio virus. As we were digging, the children teased me with worms that they found and it was a fantastic morning spent raising awareness of this important issue.
You can read more in the Express & Star here: https://www.expressandstar.com/news/local-hubs/wolverhampton/bilston/2019/10/24/bilston-goes-purple-to-raise-awareness-of-polio/?fbclid=IwAR0pxpXjJIj9sNR0PPNZyuAZPFdFxgdeZ2zSVg64ch9qWOa2idYqf_1tcOQ
Thank you to everyone who took part!