About Rotary International
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. There are over 1.2 million Rotarians, members of more than 32,596 Rotary Clubs in 168 countries. Rotary is the world's first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on February 23, 1905. The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprises and, in particular, to encourage and foster:-
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
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High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
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The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life.
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The advancement of international understanding , goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership is by invitation and reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.
ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, education and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.
ROTARY is the Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US $60 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.
ROTARY is PolioPlus, Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2010. More than one-half billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.
