Interact Club Paints Pinkies
An Interact member paints paint fingers purple in honor of Purple Pinky Day.
Kudos to the Norfolk Collegiate Interact Club, which our club sponsors. On Saturday, Oct. 18, its members sponsored a Purple Pinky booth at their school's Fall Fair in celebration of World Polio Day.
Club members raised $160 for Rotary's PolioPlus program by educating festival goers about how close Rotary International and its partners are in ending polio. Every person who donated got a pinky finger painted purple like children do when vaccinated in foreign countries. That $160 donation will get a triple match from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Since each dose of polio vaccine costs 60 cents, the Collegiate Club's hard work will help vaccinate hundreds of children in Pakistan and Afghanistan -- the last two countries in the world known to have the wild polio virus. Thanks go to the Interact Club sponsor Loli Marshall as well as our own Will King, who is our liaison with our two Interact clubs.