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. In more
than 200 countries
worldwide, approximately 1.2
million Rotarians belong to more
than 33,000 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.
A POLIO-FREE WORLD?
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 $240 million to immunize the children of the
world. Although we missed our goal of a certified polio-free world by
2005, Rotary’s centenary year,
the project continues in full force in the handful of countries in which
polio still exists. Rotarians, and the Polio Plus program have
contributed $750 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.
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