Photograph: Don’t keep it bottled up. Enjoy the sauce, enjoy filling the bottle with change and then donate to End Polio Now.
"The Rotary year 2011/12 will be the final year when we are asked to meet Rotary’s US$200 Million Challenge, which we aim to complete by 30 June 2012. The Rotary Tomato Sauce (End Polio Now) initiative was conceived as a way for Rotarians and clubs to raise funds to help meet the challenge.
A number of Rotarians and clubs have asked if they can utilise the Rotary Tomato Sauce initiative to support Rotary Foundation giving or support other charities – the answer is of course yes. This is an excellent way of promoting Rotary and raising funds to save and change lives." Vice President Ray Burman
Here is a ‘saucy’ new idea to help End Polio Now.
Pick up a bottle of, or donate a pound for, this special tomato ketchup and use it for family events and social activities, such as ‘meet the club’ days and barbecue fundraisers. When the bottle is empty, just clean it out and fill it with change, Gift Aid it and hand it in.
Over 50,000 bottles of tomato ketchup have been sent around to all Rotary districts in these islands, thanks to the extreme generosity of Wilkin & Sons in Tiptree, Essex, which is partnering, once more, with Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland (RIBI) for another innovative fundraiser. The company previously helped with a marmalade initiative in 2003 when over $1m was raised for The Rotary Foundation.
If every bottle generates a £1 donation and is then filled with £5 of change, you could help raise over £300,000. This could buy over a million doses of the polio vaccine and save children in the four remaining endemic countries from this crippling and painful disease.
It is a really simple way to save hundreds of thousands of young lives and means everyone can support the incredible drive to eradicate polio for good.
Since 1985, Rotary clubs all over the world have been committed to eradicating polio. From hundreds of thousands of new cases every year, there are now barely a thousand. There were 125 endemic countries, now there are just four: Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and Nigeria.
Contact your local Rotary club to grab your bottle and help stop polio at the ‘sauce’.
