Rotarian Myra Regan gets her pinkie painted purple.

On Feb. 14 members of the Rotary Club of Live Oak visited Suwannee Elementary School to join in the effort to raise money to help eliminate Polio in the world. Only three countries, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria are endemic. Through the Purple Pinkie Project, Live Oak school children become part of the solution by helping other children throughout the world get inoculated against the crippling disease.

Since $1 is the estimated cost to immunize one child from Polio, each time a student gave $1 with his or her parents’ permission, a pinkie was painted purple as a symbol of one child immunized from Polio.