Charity Focus: Polio Children
Monday, February 13, 2012 at 8:54 AM 
Polio Children was founded in 2003 with the primary mission of providing nutritional, educational, health, and vocational support to children, especially those from poor families, afflicted with polio and other neuro-degenerative diseases.
Registered charities in the UK and the USA, Polio Children has collected over half a million pounds and provided assistance to more than 1000 children in India, Tanzania, and England over the past 8 years. Some of its major initiatives include building a hostel for 140 girls, setting up computer and prosthetics laboratories, donating an ambulance, and assisting more than 120 students to graduate from university.
All administrative costs are borne by the founding trustees of Polio Children (one of whom is a polio victim himself) with the result that every penny donated goes directly to the children in need.
Polio remains endemic in many countries including India and Polio Children is committed to ensuring that no child with polio is left behind.
For more information on Polio Children and to make tax-deductible contributions, please visit their website at www.poliochildren.org or write to arun@poliochildren.org or mayoor@poliochildren.org (in the UK) or shirish@poliochildren.org (in the USA).
