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What is Rotary?
Rotary is an organization of approximately 1.2 million business and professional persons united worldwide
in
over 32,000 Clubs and over
200 Countries who provide humanitarian service, encourage
high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build
goodwill and peace in the world.
What is the Object of Rotary? The Object of Rotary is to
encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of
worthy enterprise. The development of acquaintance as an
opportunity for service; high ethical standards in
business and professions, the recognition of the
worthiness of all useful occupation, and the dignifying
of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve
society; the application of the ideal of service in
one’s personal, business, and community life; and the
advancement of international understanding, goodwill,
and peace through a world fellowship of business and
professional persons united in the ideal of service. |