雋永小語/扶輪事實

Worth Repeating/RotaFact

雋永小語  Worth Repeating

「扶輪，您在20年前開始寫出根除小兒痲痺的故事。如今正是最需要您的時刻，才能為這個故事寫下應有的勝利結局。」

"Rotary, you began the story of polio eradication 20 years ago. You are now needed more than ever, if this story is to have the triumphant ending it deserves."

─摘自2002年國際扶輪年會中世界衛生組織全球根除小兒痲痺活動協調人艾爾沃(Bruce Aylward)博士之演說

— Dr. Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the World Health Organization's Global Polio Eradication Initiative, in an address to the 2002 RI Convention

扶輪事實  RotaFact

印度扶輪社員去年製作了一面長達50.4公里(31.3哩)的布旗，宣傳在孟買舉行的全國免疫日活動。該布旗已獲金氏世界記錄列為全球最長的旗幟。

A cloth banner measuring 50.4 kilometers (31.3 miles) and made by Rotarians in India to promote National Immunization Days in Mumbai (formerly Bombay) last year has entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest banner in the world.