Crocus Planting at Croome Court

Last Wednesday on World Polio Day, students from Prince Henry’s High School and the De Montfort School together with the Rotary Club of Evesham highlighted historic progress towards a polio-free world by planting 5000 purple crocus bulbs to add a splash of colour for all to see next spring when visiting the Walled Gardens at Croome Court.

Since Rotary and its partners launched the Global Polio Eradication Initiative nearly 30 years ago, the incidence of polio has plummeted by more than 99.9 percent, from about 350,000 cases a year in 125 countries to just 22 cases in 2018 and with just three remaining polio-endemic countries, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria.