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What is Rotary?

ROTARY is an organisation 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 nearly 27,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in  the world.

ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programmes dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership is by invitation and reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.

ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programmes that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.

ROTARY is the Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US$60 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.

ROTARY is Polio Plus, Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organisations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary. More than one-half billion children in developing nations have been immunised against polio through Polio Plus grants.

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The Object of Rotary

The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprises and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

  1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
  2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of their occupation  as an opportunity to serve society.
  3. The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to their personal, business and community life.
  4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service.
To see Afrikaans, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Versions
of the Object of Rotary, click here.

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The Four-Way Test

Of the things we think, say or do
 

  1. Is it the TRUTH?

  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
To access a Printable English Version of the Four-Way Test,
and to see Afrikaans, German, French, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish Versions,
The Story Behind It, and How It Works click here.

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Rotary Mottoes

"Service Above Self"

"He Profits Most Who Serves Best"

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