Purple Pinkie Donuts for Polio Plus

    The Rotary Club of Fulton has teamed up with Jamolee's Bakery to raise money for Polio Plus by selling Purple Pinkie Donuts. Fulton's Rotarians join Rotary Clubs worldwide to raise money to eradicate polio from our world.

   Two war-ravaged countries still have polio – Afghanistan and Pakistan. Three decades ago, polio paralyzed 1,000 children a day in 125 countries. Today, there are less than 100 cases of wild poliovirus across Pakistan and Afghanistan. But as long as a single child has polio, all children are at risk. We have even seen a resurgence of polio cases in the US.

   Why purple pinkies donuts? In countries where the threat of polio remains, children receive polio vaccine via drops in the mouth, rather than injections, allowing millions of children to be vaccinated in a short period of time. Vaccinating so many children can be difficult to document, so when each child is vaccinated, they have the pinkie fingernail of their left hand painted with a permanent purple marker – thus the purple pinkie donuts.