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 more than 28,000 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 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 $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 scholarships.
ROTARY is PolioPlus, Rotary's committment 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 billion
children in developing nations have been immunized against polio
through PolioPlus grants.