1240 Peas... to be eaten with a cocktail stick!

Did you know that 1240 miles is the length of the border between the last two polio endemic countries of the world: Afghanistan & Pakistan?

That's why "brave" members of Maidenhead Bridge Rotary are organising a unique challenge to eat 1240 peas in a bid to raise money for the End Polio Now Rotary campaign.

How quickly can members consume 1240 peas using just a cocktail stick? Who will win fastest pea-eater of all time?

Check back in here on 23rd November where video evidence will be shared and the winner announced!

Go on sponsor us 1p a pea to rid the world of Polio!

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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 2020, 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. 

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Sponsor the Team

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 JustGiving)