Raising awareness of disease
Members of the Rotary Club of Sleaford were in ‘high spirits’ when they displayed their ‘purple pinkies’ to raise awareness and £1,000 for the ‘End Polio Now’ campaign.
Since 1985, when Rotary International teamed up with the World Health Organisation, a pledge was made to rid the world of the crippling disease. The significance of ‘the pinkie’ shown by the Rotarians resulted from the immunisation programme when 2 billion children were given the polio vaccine.
