44 walk in Washington Park in for Ottawa Noon and Sunrise Rotary’s polio campaign

About 44 people walked from Washington Park on Saturday morning to raise money and awareness for the effort to end polio, in an event coordinated by the Ottawa Noon Rotary and Sunrise Rotary clubs.The Ottawa walk was part of the World’s Largest Polio Walk, in which Rotary clubs around the world took part, according to the clubs.Rotary has worked to eradicate polio for more than 45 years and has helped reduce cases worldwide by 99.9%, the clubs said. Polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan, according to the release.If all eradication efforts stopped, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children a year within 10 years, the clubs said.Donations are accepted through the Rotary Foundation website, rotary.org/who-we-are/the-rotary-foundation.