 INTRODUCTION TO 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 23 February 1905.
ROTARY is some 1.2 million
service-minded men and women belonging to nearly 27,00 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, educational, 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 2005, Rotary´s 100th anniversary. More than one-half billion children in developing
nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.
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