THE Brownies group in Cockenzie planted thousands of flowers in Port Seton with the help of members of Longniddry Rotary Club, to mark and remember polio and those suffering from the disease.
On October 17, the two groups planted crocuses in Goolwa Park as part of Rotary’s Purple-4-Polio Project to end polio worldwide.
Currently, the wild strain of polio remains in only two countries in the world: Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Earlier this year, the World Health Organisation announced that Africa was clear of wild polio but a vaccine-derived strain has re-emerged in Sudan, showing how difficult it can be to eradicate a virus.
The Rotary club and Brownies group planted 4,000 crocus corms which should bloom in spring, giving the area a splash of colour to remind people of those suffering from polio.
The flowers were also planted in a heart shape in support of the NHS and all of the work it is doing during the coronavirus pandemic.
Tom Shearer, Longniddry Rotary Club president, thanked the Brownies, their parents and the Rotary members who helped make the planting possible.
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