NNaattiioonnaall IImmmmuunniissaattiioonn DDaayyssOn National Immunisation Days, or NIDs,Rotarians mobilise to deliver the vaccine tohundreds of thousands of children.

Travelling by boat, camel, motorcycle ormany other means to the most remore regionsof the planet, vaccinators mark houses withchalk and stain ‘pinkies’ with dye to indicatethat children have been immunised.

Photograph by Marcus O

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Photograph by Jean-Mark Giboux

Rotarians provide many of the essentialsupplies needed to carry out NIDS.

A single NID in India involves:

709,000 vaccination booths1.17 million vaccination teams225 million doses of polio

vaccine

2 million vaccine carriers6.3 million ice packs to keep the

vaccine cold

209 million homes visited172 million children immunised

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