As you may know, Rotary
International is composed of over 31,000 clubs that
meet weekly in 162 countries around the globe.
Rotarians
are business owners, executives, and professionals
or people who were in that capacity but who are now
retired, who are united in serving the world, national
and local communities. Rotary Clubs locally meet around
breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Your
next step is to visit a Rotary Club for one of its
regular meetings. It is important that you attend
one that meets at a time and location that is convenient
for you. To receive an invitation, please contact
us.
or call 610 459 4183. You will be contacted by someone
promptly.
To
learn more about Rotary, please explore our website
> www.Rotary7450.org
About Rotary
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. Rotarians develop
community service projects that address many of today's
most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty
and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence.
They also support 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.
Although Rotary clubs
develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians
worldwide are united in a campaign for the global
eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised
US$240 million to immunize the children of the world;
by 2005, Rotary's centennial year and the target date
for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus
program will have contributed US$500 million to this
cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of
volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization
days in polio-endemic countries around the world.
The Rotary Foundation
of Rotary International is a not-for-profit corporation
that promotes world understanding through international
humanitarian service programs and educational and
cultural exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary
contributions from Rotarians and others who share
its vision of a better world. Since 1947, the Foundation
has awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian
and educational grants, which are initiated and administered
by local Rotary clubs and districts.