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What is a Purple Pinky?

Help Eradicate Polio from the Planet
In other countries, when a child receives a Polio vaccine, his/her pinky is dyed purple. This allows volunteers to be able roam the villages and identify who has been vaccinated and who has not.
 

 Purple Pinky Project 2009 a Success!

More than 200 people had their pinkies dyed purple (temporarily) to help eradicate polio from the globe.

The Honesdale Rotary Club and its youth counterpart, the Honesdale High School Interact Club, held a day-long fundraiser outside and inside the Himalayan Institute Main Street Café on Saturday, May 9th. For a $1 donation, about the cost of a dose of polio vaccine, passersby could have their pinkies dyed purple.

Children in India have their pinkies dyed purple when they’re vaccinated against polio to help keep track of who’s been protected.

Polio is still endemic in India, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Nigeria. Rotary International has been fighting polio worldwide since the 1980s- and the disease is almost licked. The two local clubs raised about $3000 during Saturday’s events, which also included a dynamic presentation by a Rotarian who had vaccinated children in India.

Anyone wishing to add to the “polio prevention pot” can donate only here:http://honesdalerotary.com/PolioPlus/index.htm
or call Honesdale Rotary President Brian Fulp at (570) 647-1514.