Did someone say "CUPCAKES"?! The Rotary club of Kapolei Sunset and IPA Interact Club (Rotary for high schoolers), in partnership with Cupcake & Things Bakery in Kapolei, are selling cupcakes to raise funds for PolioPlus. $1 from each cupcake sold ($4 from each 4-pack) goes directly to PolioPlus. You can order now and pick up at our drive-thru pick up on Saturday, October 23 (the day before World Polio Day) between 10:00AM and 2:00PM. Check out our Eventbrite page: bit.ly/3k8wZ5G
Each Eventbrite "ticket" equals one 4-pack of cupcakes. There will be a variety of cupcake flavors in the 4-pack with one of the cupcakes frosted purple to symbolize the purple dye that Polio Plus workers use to identify children that have been vaccinated. If you like cupcakes, this is the fundraiser for you!
Rotary in 1985 launched "PolioPlus" and in 1988 helped establish the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, which today includes the World Health Organization, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, UNICEF, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to immunize the children of the world against polio. Polio cases have dropped by 99.9 percent since 1988 and the world stands on the threshold of eradicating the disease. To date, Rotary has contributed more then $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protecting more than 2.5 billion children in 122 countries. Rotary is working to raise an additional $50 million per year, which would be leveraged for maximum impact by an additional $100 million annually from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The goal is to have polio be the second disease ever eradicated from the earth! (Polio cases still exist in Pakistan and Afghanistan.) And now, the frontline workforce of thousands who deliver vaccines in polio campaigns are doing contact tracing, surveillance, health worker training, infection prevention, risk communication and looking for cases of COVID-19.