Narooma Rotary Club and the Kinema will screen Eddie the Eagle on Thursday, May 5 to raise awareness and funds to support Rotary’s End Polio Now program.
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The movie is inspired by true events and is a ‘feel good’ story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards (Taron Egerton), an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself. With the help of a charismatic coach (Hugh Jackman), Eddie wins the hearts of sports fans around the world when he appears at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
There will be prizes for the ‘best’ ski beanies and goggles.
Narooma Rotary President Bob Antill said the world is ‘so close to eradicating this paralysing and potentially fatal disease, but it needs more resources’.
Rotary International is the lead private sector partner in the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, a partnership with the World Health Organization, US Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
“Since 1988, more than 2.5 billion children have been immunised, eradicating polio all but two countries – Afghanistan and Pakistan,” he said.
This has reduced new polio cases from 350,000 worldwide each year to 370 in 2014.
Drinks and nibbles from 6.30pm, film at 7pm. Cost $20.
Similar nights have been organised in association with the Rotary Foundation and Twentieth Century Fox in many countries.
