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What is Rotary?
- Rotary is the world's first service club. The first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on February 23, 1905.
- Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community representation.
- Rotary is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US $90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world's largest private provider of international educational scholarships.
- 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 PolioPlus, 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 one billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.
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Object of Rotary
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worth enterprise and in particular, to encourage and foster:
FIRST: The development of acquaintances as an opportunity for service.
SECOND: High ethical standards in business and professionals: the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
THIRD: The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business and community life.
FOURTH: The advancements of international understanding, good will, an dpeace through a world fellowship of business and professional men and women in the idea of service.
The Four Way Test
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Is it the TRUTH? |
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Is it fair to all CONCERNED? |
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Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIP? |
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Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned? |
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