The Rotary Club of Sarnia-Lambton After-Hours has teamed up with Global Donuts to raise funds and awareness for polio prevention projects.
Spokesperson Deborah Renaud-McDermott said Gus Pantazis has created a purple pinkie doughnut, that will be sold starting October 17, for one week.
"100 per cent of the sales will go toward the End Polio Now fund," said Renaud-McDermott. "The nice thing about that is that, let's say $1,000 was raised through the sale of the doughnuts, through the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, those funds are actually matched two to one. So, that $1,000 actually becomes $3,000 to help fight polio."
Polio is crippling and potentially fatal, but easily prevented through vaccination.
When children are vaccinated, their pinkie finger is marked purple to show they've been immunized.
Rotary has helped reduce the disease by 99 per cent since its first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Today, polio is only endemic in Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan.
