| Purple Pinkie Project |
| Editor: Buscemi, Tommie |
| Posted on Oct 16 2009 |
 | The PURPLE PINKIE PROJECT IS COMING, and our District 5890 Interactor
clubs need your help! The Purple Pinkie Project has been selected to
be our District 5890 Interact Group Project, and the Interact district
officers have set a collective goal of $5,000 to be raised. This
announcement was made at the District 5890 Interact Club Round-Up
(District Assembly) on September 26th by Interact District Governor,
Daisy Wu, and Quest High School Interactor, Katie Cole. 100% of the
funds that the D5890 Interact clubs collectively raise will be donated
to Rotary's PolioPlus program. |
Millions and millions of children and their parents in polio endemic countries know that a freshly painted purple pinkie means freedom from polio. When our local school children make a $1.00 contribution during Purple Pinkie Project day, D5890 Interactors will paint their pinkies with the same Gentian Violet Ink used around the world on a National Immunization Day.
To create awareness about World Polio Day on October 24th, our D5890 Interactors are encouraged to hold Purple Pinkie Projects at local elementary and middle schools, at their own high school, plus at community events. This will create public awareness that polio still exists in our world, and also about Rotary's unrelenting role to eradicate the disease.
If schools prefer not to use the ink, a purple yarn bracelet, purple temporary hair color spray, purple glitter sprinkled in their hair, or even purple nail polish on the pinkie finger can be done. Whichever method is used, it will be that child's personal symbol that their contribution has helped free another child from polio forever, which makes them a "Polio Hero."
Interactors are encouraged to attend the meeting of their sponsoring Rotary club to give more "purple pinkies", so please be generous when they come to your club. Please ask Interactors to visit your club so they can give a presentation about the Purple Pinkie Project. It would be great if Rotary clubs would consider matching the funds that the Interactor club collects so our District 5890 Interactors can reach their goal of $5,000.00.
With your help, we can make polio only the 2nd disease wiped off the face of the earth! (What was the 1st? Small Pox)
Click on the links on the left side of this webpage for forms and documents with more detail information.
UNTIL THE LAST CHILD IS VACCINATED, POLIO IS JUST A PLANE RIDE AWAY!!!!!
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