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ROTARY
is an organization of business and professional leaders united world-wide,
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 29,000
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 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 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$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 organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's
100th anniversary. More than 1.2 billion children in developing nations have
been immunized against polio through Polio Plus grants.
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