Dear fellow Rotarians, Rotaractors, and friends of the polio eradication movement,
It is with a full heart and a clear sense of purpose that I welcome each one of you to Rotary Year 2026–2027. A new Rotary Year is always a gift; a fresh calendar, a renewed fellowship, and another twelve months in which we get to ask ourselves the most important question Rotary ever puts to its members: what will I do this year that truly matters?
For those of us in the PolioPlus family, the answer has never changed. We will do what we have always done. We will fight polio in our communities, in our clubs, in our advocacy visits, in our campaign fields, and in our fundraising tables. We will fight it until there is nothing left to fight.
In addition, I am proud of what Nigeria’s Rotary districts accomplished in Rotary Year 2025–2026. Six districts. $882,932 contributed to The Rotary Foundation Polio Fund. District 9141 alone gave $469,001.30, Nigeria’s highest PolioPlus district total in history. Four districts recorded zero non-giving clubs. Rotarians cycled 853 kilometres through five states to carry the End Polio Now message. We commissioned Africa’s largest End Polio Now monument. We walked. We gave. We supervised. We showed up.
I am grateful. And I say so on behalf of the Nigeria National PolioPlus Committee, on behalf of Rotary International, and on behalf of the children who received a vaccine because a Rotarian was present in the field….. Read more