ROTARY News:

Friday, Oct. 23, members of the Los Alamos Rotary Club will be visiting local elementary schools providing a tangible way for children to participate in the world-wide effort to eradicate polio. 

Children who donate $1 or more will have their pinky finger dipped in (perfectly safe) Gentian Violet Ink. Their Purple Pinkies will remind them of the process used by immunization teams to prevent children from being double-dosed; as the teams work through the population in a village, each child receives their vaccine and gets their pinkie dyed purple.

Success is very close! When Rotary began their initiative in 1988, more than 350,000 people contracted polio each year. Today only Afghanistan and Pakistan still report active polio cases. Partnering with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, all donations made through Rotary are matched 2:1.

This Friday, any Purple Pinkies you see are a real badge of honor and mean we are that much closer to accomplishing the goal of COMPLETELY ridding the world of the crippling disease of polio.