Students from five schools in South Shropshire and North Herefordshire took part in a special fundraising concert to help eradicate polio.
In front of a capacity audience, students from Clee Hill Community Academy, Bishop’s Castle Community College, Weobley High School, Earl Mortimer College and Wigmore High School put heart and soul into a concert – Youth Makes Music – which featured music from the shows, rock and roll and classical.
Arranged by Ludlow Rotary Club and held at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms, the concert raised around £1,000 towards Rotary International’s ‘End Polio Now’ initiative.
Together with match funding provided by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, this enables 15,000 children to be vaccinated against the disease.
“It was wonderful that these young people wanted to help end polio by performing this concert, for until polio is totally eradicated every child is at risk of this highly infectious, potentially life-threatening and paralysing disease,” said organiser Tom Hunt of Ludlow Rotary Club.
If you would like to donate, visit peoplesfundraising.com/fundraising/end-polio-now.
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