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.
For more information on Rotary International visit the web site at http://www.rotary.org
Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular,
to encourage and foster:
First.
The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
Second. 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;
Third. The
application of the ideal of service in every Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
Fourth. The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world of fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal
of service.
