Rotary is a worldwide organization of more
than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders.
Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian
service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help
build goodwill and peace in the world.
There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and
geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to
all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto Service Above
Self, Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the
workplace, and throughout the world.
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:
- FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an
opportunity for service;
- SECOND. 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;
- THIRD. The application of the ideal of
service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
- FOURTH. The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of
business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Based on the Object of Rotary, the Avenues of
Service are Rotary’s philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on
which club activity is based:
- Club Service focuses on strengthening
fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.
- Vocational Service encourages Rotarians to
serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical
standards.
- Community Service covers the projects and
activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.
- International Service encompasses actions
taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and
to promote world understanding and peace.
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