12 hours...40 people...

Brave members of Maidenhead Bridge Rotary are organising a very special event called Get Moving to End Polio in a bid to raise money for the End Polio Now Rotary campaign.

The club has a history of weird and wacky fundraising ideas including The Big Climb, which saw members climb the outside climbing wall at Longrige 256 times, the equivalent of base camp to the summit of Everest; and not to mention taking on the Thames Path Challenge - a gruelling 50k walk against time from Runnymede to Henley; and 24 challenges and 24 hours, so this is nothing new for them!

The idea is for a 40 person relay team, over the course of 12 hours to take on either a rowing machine, treadmill, static bike, or skipping, one after the other.  People can choose what they want to do, and they can do it whatever speed suits them, but there is no stopping or time to change over so literally the next person has to be ready to go at exactly 18 minutes.
 
The reason we are doing this is part of Rotary’s initiative to end polio, the main focus of which is on the border of Afghanistan and Pakistan, which is a total of 1240 miles – hence the challenge of 12 hours and 40 people!  

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Whats it all about?

Unless and until we finish the job and the whole world is entirely free of the tenacious poliovirus,
children everywhere are at risk.

Over 400 million children in up to 60 countries have to receive multiple doses of the polio vaccine
annually with around 2 billion doses being administered.  If we ease up on our work now it is estimated there will be at least 200,000 cases annually all over the world within 10 years.

As of September 2019, the only two countries where there are still new cases of wild poliovirus are Afghanistan and Pakistan. The length of the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan is, in itself, politically sensitive. The distance used by the Global Polio Eradication Initiative and its members is “more than 1,240 miles”.

Our goal is to raise funds to continue Rotary’s key humanitarian priority of totally ridding the world from polio, a terrible, paralysing disease that can kill or severely disable children. By taking part in Get Moving to End Polio, you are making a difference to the lives of millions of children.

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Show your support to the team, they'll definitely need the encouragement to complete the challenge!  ​To sponsor the team please click here (you will be transferred to Virgin Money Giving)

Join the Team

Do you want to help us beat polio?  Then why not sign up below to take on one of our 18 minutes slots, or volunteer to give out information to the public.