The world has made huge strides against polio, with cases down 99.9% since 1988—but the last stretch is the toughest. That’s where you come in.
The Team End Polio movement challenge is designed to unite communities in Canada—and around the world—through physical activity while driving awareness and action to achieve a polio-free future for all.
From 24 September – 24 October, Team End Polio is inviting people to Strava to contribute towards a collective 60 million minutes of movement dedicated to ending polio.
Health workers travel extraordinary distances to vaccinate 400 million children against polio every year. Match their drive with your own. Every minute you move on Strava is a minute in solidarity with the health workers who never stop.
The challenge is designed to be inclusive and accessible, inviting people of all abilities to take part, whether it’s running, cycling, swimming, wheelchair biking, or any activity that motivates them.
As with any challenge, we’re stronger as a team. Let’s move together to protect all children against polio. Join the challenge here.
Joining is simple:
3. Move your way.
Run, cycle, swim, roll, or do whatever gets you moving. Save your activity in Strava, and it counts toward our global goal.
4. Share the challenge.
Invite friends to join — on WhatsApp, social media, or in person. Check out the social media toolkit below.
Multiply your impact with a fundraiser for Rotary’s PolioPlus Fund. All donations go to reaching children in need with polio vaccines.
Visit the Team End Polio Canada Raise for Rotary team page.
Select “Start your fundraiser.”
Create your Raise for Rotary account. Rotary members: use your Rotary business email, or sign in if you already have an account, and add your club information—otherwise select “None” from the dropdown menu when asked about your club.
Add a fundraiser title that includes “Team End Polio,” set your goal, and set your end date to 24 October.
Share your fundraiser with family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues, and turn your network into polio eradication supporters.
Prefer to fundraise without joining a Team End Polio page? Visit raise.rotary.org, select “Start your fundraiser,” choose “PolioPlus Fund (with Strava),” and follow steps 3–5 above.
Follow our Team End Polio Ambassadors.
Caroline
Caroline Pomerleau is a runner and a mother. The 2023 Canadian Marathon Champion, she is currently working her way back to elite-level competition following her pregnancy. Through her content, she shares the realities of training, motherhood, and returning to high-level performance, while continuing to push her own limits.
Liam
Liam is an emerging talent in the world of professional triathlon and a member of the Canadian National Team, competing internationally at the highest level of Olympic-distance racing. He has represented Canada at multiple World Championships and earned podium finishes around the world, including a bronze medal at the 2023 Pan American Games.
With his sights set on the LA 2028 Olympic Games, Liam hopes to bring his audience along for the journey, offering a behind-the-scenes look at the training, fueling, recovery, travel, and racing required to compete among the best triathletes in the world.
Zaidane
Zaidane Chitou is a dynamic force in the worlds of athletics, fitness and fashion: an exceptional professional runner, a serious presence in the fitness game and one of the rising stars of the German fashion influencer scene when it comes to bold, impactful outfits.
On the track, Zaidane channels his athleticism and drive to push limits and achieve new personal bests.
Off the track, his disciplined fitness routines and distinct fashion sense make him both inspiring and stylish.
Sarah
Sarah Wellbrock is a German Olympic swimmer and one of the country’s most accomplished distance freestylers. She won bronze in the 1500m freestyle at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Germany’s first pool medal in 13 years, and was world silver medallist over the same distance in 2019. She holds the German long-course record in the 800m freestyle and set a short-course world record of 15:18.01 in Berlin in 2019.
We’re stronger as a team—tell the world you want to end polio and encourage your friends to join the challenge!
Click to see the Rotary-specific toolkit here.
Sample social copy
Join the #TeamEndPolio Challenge on @strava and help us reach 60 million minutes of movement—run, swim, or wheel, every move counts to keep kids safe from polio. Sign up now on @strava! https://bit.ly/4y6zCsa #EndPolio
No child should be paralyzed by polio. That’s why health workers trek across snow covered mountains, walk long distances in scorching heat, and cross rushing rivers to deliver polio vaccines–so no child is left unprotected.
Join the #TeamEndPolio Challenge on @strava and help reach 60 million minutes of movement by Oct. 24. Every minute you move on @strava is a minute in solidarity with the health workers who never stop. Join the Team: https://bit.ly/4y6zCsa
#EndPolio
Polio cases are down 99.9%, but the disease continues to paralyze children today. We have the power to make history and #EndPolio for good! 🌍💪🏾
Join the #TeamEndPolio Challenge on @strava. Whether you run, bike, swim, or wheel, every move counts toward a world where kids are protected from all preventable diseases. https://bit.ly/4y6zCsa
Canada’s longtime support for the global effort to #EndPolio has helped protect 20 million children from paralysis. Keep Canada’s commitment strong.
Join the #TeamEndPolio Challenge. Log your movement on @Strava & help reach 60 million minutes by 24 Oct. https://bit.ly/4y6zCsa
