LOCAL children have teamed up with members of the Dinas Powis Rotary Club to raise awareness of the battle against global polio eradication.
Pupils from St Andrews Junior School and the First Dinas Powys Brownies and Guides worked alongside the Rotary Club to plant 5,000 crocus bulbs, as part of the worldwide ‘Purple4Polio’ campaign.
Crocus flowers are the same colour as the dye put on children’s fingers who have been immunised against polio – indicating that they have received their vaccine.
The bulbs were planted over a number of weeks, each Thursday, in locations across Dinas Powys, including one patch near to St Andrews Junior School and others nearby the village green.
The Purple4Polio program is part of a Rotary International initiative, the purpose of which is to eradicate the disease across the globe.
With just 11 confirmed cases so far in 2017, the preventable infection that once paralysed hundreds of thousands of children each year globally is now thought to be on the brink of elimination.
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