About
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.
Rotary is the world’s first service club. The first Rotary
club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on February 23,
1905.
Rotary is some 1.2 million service-minded men and women
belonging to nearly 29,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every
nation in the world.
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 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 Polio Plus, Rotary’s commitment to work with
national and international health organizations on the goal
of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary’s 100th
anniversary. More than one-half billion children in the
developing nations have been immunized against polio
through Polio Plus grants.
Rotary is...SERVICE ABOVE SELF
