Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide.  Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally tocombat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.

Each club participates in numerous projects that help their local communities. In addition, Rotarians fund an International program called “Polio Plus” through the Rotary Foundation that serves to eliminate polio and other diseases throughout the world. The prospects of achieving global polio eradication are high. Rotary looks forward to providing all children with a permanent gift — a world free of polio.

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:

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

2. 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;

3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;

4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.