ROTARY is a service organisation of business and professional leaders united worldwide who help those in need, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and work toward world under-standing and peace.
ROTARY
is 1.227 million service-minded men and women belonging to
31,561 Rotary Clubs in 166 countries and 35 geographical
regions. (Jun 03)
Membership is by invitation.
ROTARIANS meet weekly to enjoy each others' fellowship and discuss ways to serve others.
ROTARY is compassion for the underprivileged, the ill and the disabled, who benefit from over 50,000 Rotary club service projects in the world each year.
‘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;
1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity of service;
2. 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;
3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life,
4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.’
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION gives more than £21 million every year to educational and humanitarian programmes which promote international understanding.
The world headquarters are in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and the Secretariat of "Rotary in Great Britain and Ireland is at Kinwarton Road, Alcester, Warwickshire B49 6BP.
