Rotary International (RI) District 3780 and the Rotary Club of Agham, led by Dr. Irene Santos, will be hosting the First Gov Angel Paul J. Galang Golf Cup at the Villamor Air Base in Pasay City on June 6. Shotgun tee off is set at 6:30 a.m.

Funds raised during the tournament will go to RID 3780’s continuing commitment to hopefully end polio in the next five years.

“RI’s flagship project is to end polio in our lifetime. Rotary’s Polio Project actually started here in the Philippines in 1979, and was formally launched in 1989 by no less than the first Filipino RI President Mateo T. Caparas,” said Galang Cup tournament chairman Gen. Hermogenes C. Esperon Jr. (ret.).

The staging of the Galang Cup will also coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Agham.

Esperon added RI has actually been supplying countries with polio vaccines, in cooperation with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) for the last 35 years. More than $2 billion in polio vaccines have been distributed in 132 countries by RI, BGMF, the World Health Organization (WHO), and Unicef through the Global Polio Eradication Initiative.