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 23rd February
1905.
Rotary is some 1.2 million service minded men and women belonging
to more than 32,500 Rotary Clubs in virtually every nation in
the world.
Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and organise interesting
and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global
importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community
representation.
Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian,
educational and clutural 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$ 90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges
and humanitarian projects, large and small, that improve the
quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded
as the world’s largest private provider of international
educational scholarhips.
Rotary is Polio Plus, Rotary’s commitment to work with
national and international health organisation on the goal of
polio eradication. More than one billion children in developing
nations have been immunized against through Polio Plus grants.
