What is Rotary
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united
worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical
standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the
world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million
Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.
Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the
community's business and professional men and women. The world's
Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open
to all cultures, races, and creeds.
The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the
workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community
service projects that address many of today's most critical issues,
such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment,
illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth,
educational opportunities and international exchanges for students,
teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career
development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.
Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all
Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global
eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to
immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year
and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the
PolioPlus program will have contributed US$500 million to this cause.
In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and
assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries
around the world.
Find out more about Rotary by visiting the Rotary International web
site.
Rotary International WebSite
Information on this page came from:
Rotary International Website
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united
worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical
standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the
world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million
Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.
Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the
community's business and professional men and women. The world's
Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open
to all cultures, races, and creeds.
The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the
workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community
service projects that address many of today's most critical issues,
such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment,
illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth,
educational opportunities and international exchanges for students,
teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career
development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.
Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all
Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global
eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to
immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year
and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the
PolioPlus program will have contributed US$500 million to this cause.
In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and
assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries
around the world.
Find out more about Rotary by visiting the Rotary International web
site.
Rotary International WebSite
Information on this page came from:
Rotary International Website
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