Rotary International

Rotary was founded as a philanthropic organisation over 100 years ago, on 23rd February 1905, by four businessmen in Chicago, USA.  It has since grown to a worldwide organization of approximately 1.2 million people, belonging to more than 32,000 clubs, in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.  Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps foster goodwill and peace in the world.
Apart from the service provided by individual clubs addressed to the needs of their local communities, Rotary International has achieved notable success in three specific areas across the globe:

• The eradication of polio worldwide
• Supporting education in the third world
• Encouraging communities to interact and learn from each others’ competencies

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Rotary membership provides the opportunity to:

• Become connected to your community.
• Work with others in addressing community needs.
• Interact with other professionals in your community; assist with RI's international humanitarian service efforts.
• Establish contacts with an international network of professionals.
• Develop leadership skills.
• Involve family in promoting service efforts.

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 each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
• FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.