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One of the
programs in Rotary’s panoply of worldwide service activities and projects is the Rotary Community Corps. Formerly known as Rotary
Village Corps (or Rotary Community Service Corps in urban areas), this form of grassroots self-help service was initiated by RI
President M.A.T. Caparas in 1986 as a means of improving the quality of life in villages, neighborhoods, and communities. The program is
built on the premise that there is frequently an abundance of available labor in an area but no process for mobilizing men and women to
conduct useful projects of community improvement.
A Rotary Community Corps is a Rotary club-sponsored group of non-Rotarians who want to help their own community by conducting service projects. Rotarians provide professional expertise, guidance, encouragement, organizational structure, and some of the material assistance
for the Rotary Community Corps, whose members contribute the manpower and knowledge of community needs to help their own community. Thus,
the Rotary Community Corps is another way for Rotarians to serve in places of great need. |
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