Rotary has been in the spotlight recently after winning two different slots on the 22-ft high empty plinth in Trafalgar Square as part of the OneandOther human art exhibition. Jasmine Morris from the Rotary club of Hertford Shires dressed completely in purple on August 27 to publicise Rotary’s polio eradication project. The 68-year-old retired teacher hoped the initiative would raise awareness of the Turn Hoddesdon Purple Day taking place next February during Thanks for Life week.Jasmine’s club are encouraging the whole town to dress in purple; the colour symbolising the dye painted on the fingers of children who have been immunised. Money raised from the initiative will go towards the
Thanks for Life campaign which aims to help Rotary stamp out polio from the world for good. “I was so shocked that I’d been chosen to appear on the plinth, but I’m so glad that I was. It really gave me a chance to raise consciousness of the cause,” she said. "All I can say was that it was a ‘High point ‘of my life – all 10 feet of it!"Jasmine was even able to raise the profile of the polio eradication campaign with a live interview on BBC Radio 5.