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What is Rotary?

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.

Rotary club membership represents a cross section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. The main objective of Rotary is service...in the community, in the workplace, and. throughout the world. Rotanans develop community service projects that address many of to day's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence.

Rotary also supports programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is "Service Above Self".

Paul Percy Harris was the founder of Rotary, the world's first truely international service club. Harris created something unique, a whole world away from the old fraternity clubs such as the Elks and the Masonic Orders.

In his own words, Rotary offered " fraternity without rituals, passwords and secrets". Harris' idea of the service club has been copied and adapted the world over from the Lions and Kiwanis to the British Round Table.

The Object of Rotary

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:

• The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.

• The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to their personal, business and community life.

• High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by every Rotarian of their occupation as an opportunity to serve society.

• The advancement of international understanding, good will and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional people united in the ideal of service.

The Four Way Test

Followed by Rotarians worldwide in their business and professional lives, the Four Way Test was created in 1932. It has since been translated into more than 100 languages.

Of the things we think, say or do

• Is it the TRUTH?

• Is it FAIR to all concerned?

• Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

• Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?