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Enthusiastic Upminster Primary Schools get planting to help end polio forever


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n Monday 4th and Thursday 7th


October, children from Upminster‟s Branfil and Engayne Primary Schools joined Rotary‟s world-wide campaign to end the scourge of polio, long banished from Europe but still crippling thou- sands of young lives in the remoter areas of India, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria.


ranfil‟s Head Teacher, Andy


Kelly, leading four enthusiastic children from the school‟s Council said „We‟re delighted to help in this wonderful plan by Rotary to end the scourge of polio‟.


ngayne‟s Head Teacher, Suzanne


Ship, aided by her very helpful Grounds Keeper, Francis Donovan, leading her pupils said „We agree with Andy, this is really important work that Rotary are doing, and it gives young people in Havering a wider perspective on the difficulties and


challenges faced by children in other parts of our world‟.


W


ith John Crowder, Hornchurch &


Upminster Rotary‟s President, the Club‟s Senior Vice president, George Larkey, explained to the children that this Autumn Rotary is


organising the planting of millions of purple crocus bulbs throughout the country. These bulbs will flower in mid February (about the date of international Rotary Day on 23rd February) and the purple colour is just like the tiny dab of colour put on the little finger of every child who has been inoculated against the deadly polio virus.


A


ll the money raised


frombuying and selling these bulbs will go directly to purchase the polio vaccine.


Photos provided by George Larkey Story by Dick Palmer


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