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One Step Closer: The End of Polio

 

On the 29th October 2011 in response to the Global Poverty Project's The End of Polio campaign, the Australian Government committed $50 million to polio eradication efforts - helping to close the funding gap currently limiting global vaccination work.

To celebrate this important announcement, organisation co-founders Hugh Evans and Simon Moss sent this message to campaign supporters -- sharing the grassroots beginnings of a campaign that is helping realise the end of the second human disease in history.

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