About Rotary
Rotary is...
- Rotary is a service organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who conduct humanitarian projects, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and work toward world understanding and peace.
- Rotary is more than 1 million service-minded leaders belonging to over 24,400 Rotary Clubs in 167 countries. Membership is by invitation.
- Rotarians meet weekly to enjoy each other's fellowship and discuss ways to serve others.
- Rotary is compassion for the underprivileged, the ill and the disabled, many of whom are the beneficiaries of over 50,000 service projects conducted by Rotary Clubs in the world each year.
- Rotary adds fulfillment each year to the lives of some 9,000 young people of secondary school age as they study in countries other than their own.
- The ROTARY FOUNDATION contributes more than US$40 million annually to it's various educational and humanitarian programs to promote international understanding.
- Rotary sponsors INTERACT, nearly 6,000 service clubs for young people of secondary school age in nearly 90 countries
- ROTARY sponsors ROTARACT, more than 4,160 service clubs for young adults between 18 and 29 in nearly 100 countries.
- ROTARY began in 1905 in Chicago. The international headquarters is in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A., and there are branch offices in 9 countries on 5 continents.
- ROTARY in 1988-1989 grew at the extraordinary rate of a new club every 12 hours.