THE Rotary Club of North Berwick has planted thousands of bulbs to celebrate ongoing progress in eradicating polio.
On October 17, members of the club planted another 8,000 purple crocus bulbs on the verge on Haddington Road opposite the entrance to Pilgrim's Way.
The club has been carrying out planting in the area since 2019 and in that time has planted more than 46,000 corms.
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The purple colour signifies the dye used to mark the finger of a children who has been immunised against the polio virus.
Rotary International along with the Bill Gates Foundation have been immunising children in places where polio has been endemic.
They have now eradicated the disease in most parts of the globe except for Pakistan and Afghanistan, where it still has a hold because of lack of access.
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