  The Purple Pinkie poster is now starting to take shape. Hundreds of Southwold residents, celebrities, family, friends and people of note have added their Pinkies and a message to the poster. Hopefully the poster can be auctioned off to raise further funds.
 In the meantime please look out for the poster and take the opportunity to add your Pinkie and message. Every Pinkie print buys a vaccine and could save a child's life.
Polio is a crippling and potentially fatal disease. Fortunately, although incurable, Polio is easy to prevent. A child can be vaccinated for just 50p, protecting the child against this terrible disease for life.
Through one of the world’s biggest immunisation programmes, Polio has been 99 per cent eradicated – so this is one last push to destroy the disease for good. Polio Plus is a global partnership of Rotary, the World Health Organisation, UNICEF and the US Centre for Disease Control. The campaign has been running for 20 years and the results are astounding.
 In 1988 Polio was endemic in 125 countries. But in 2008 only 1,173 new cases of Polio were reported and Polio is endemic in just four countries: Afghanistan, India, Pakistan and Nigeria.  So the aim is to make one last push, to rid the world of Polio once and for all. By supporting the Purple Pinkie campaign, you can help make the pain and life-limiting effects of Polio a thing of the past. Why is it called Purple Pinkie? When a child is vaccinated, they have a purple stamp put on their little finger. So each Purple Pinkie brings us closer to making Polio history. Vaccinations costs just 50p per child. At events planned for 2010 people will be asked to use their Pinkie to leave a purple fingerprint on one of the stickers provided and sign their name. They can leave a little message too if they wish. We ask them to donate 50p per fingerprint (the cost of one vaccine). This sticker will then be attached to a huge poster with hundreds of other Purple Pinkies and will be auctioned off in the summer of 2010 hopefully raising more money for eradicating polio. Watch this space for more details.
The final push to end polio in India. Documentary, fronted by Konnie Huq (BBC and Blue Peter presenter), giving the background to Rotary's campaign to rid the world of polio and describing the November 2009 sub national immunisation days in India at which 86 Rotarians from RIBI helped Indian volunteers to vaccinate 67 million children in just 2 days.
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End Polio Nowposted 20 Dec 2009 12:42 by Alan Hardwick [ updated 17 Sep 2010 01:39 ] |