Tuesday's Meeting
Purple Pinkies for Polio!
The slideshow above shows some of the students Early Act members educated about polio during lunch today. Our members each had a list of polio facts they were teaching their fellow students. If the kids could repeat at least one fact they learned, then we painted their pinkie purple! You can see how excited the kids were to be involve!
Why purple pinkies? Part of the Rotary initiative involves going to the countries where there are still cases of polio and vaccinating the kids there (polio effects kids under 5 the most). The vaccination is a drop of liquid in the child's mouth. It actually tastes really good and kids have been known to get back in line to get vaccinated again. In order to keep this from happening (those vaccinations are way to valuable to waste), the volunteers color each child's pinkie purple as they vaccinate them. Today we showed our support by learning a little about how polio effects other parts of the world and painting our own pinkies purple. The facts students learned to receive a purple pinkie are below!