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About Rotary
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional
leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high
ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill
and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians
belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 166 countries.
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.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a not-for-profit
corporation that promotes world understanding through international
humanitarian service programs and educational and cultural
exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions
from Rotarians and others who share its vision of a better
world. Since 1947, the Foundation has awarded more than US$1.1
billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are
initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.
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