Key Rotary Messages
If you need to know some salient facts about what Rotary is and what
it achieves, try these:
- Rotary
is a global network of community volunteers.
- Rotary
works to improve the quality of life for all people.
- Rotary
exists to do good in the world.
- Rotary
is an international service organization of 1.2 million business and
professional men and women who, as volunteers, address needs of their
home and international communities.
- Rotary
initiates local and global service projects to promote world understanding
and peace and improve the life conditions for people of all ages and
cultures. An example is PolioPlus through which Rotary is working to
eradicate polio by 2005.
- Rotary's
strength lies in the volunteer service of its membership, an international
network of business and professional leaders implementing a wide range
of programs to meet human needs.
- Rotarians
are men and women of integrity who represent a cross-section of business
and professional backgrounds. As volunteers of all ages, they work to
meet community and international concerns.
- Rotary's
strength is that it is both international and local. For example, today's
critical problems, such as health and sanitation, hunger, and environmental
deterioration, must be addressed at local levels. With more than 30,000
clubs in 163 countries, Rotary is ideally suited to address such problems.
ABOUT POLIOPLUS
- Through
PolioPlus, Rotary leads private-sector participation in the global effort
to eradicate polio. The value of the half-billion-dollar program by 2005
is multiplied by the thousands of volunteers in more than 100 countries
helping to immunize children.
- Rotary's
volunteer and financial assistance in vaccination efforts means polio
will disappear in nation after nation and region after region. Polio
eradication will not occur until the disease disappears from all nations
and all regions.
- Rotary's
community-based leadership in target countries was a deciding factor
in the World Health Assembly's goal of polio eradication. Rotary International
is the key private partner in the global fight to eradicate polio
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