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Rotary International encourages clubs to focus their Community Service activities in certain areas. Areas of emphasis include
combating hunger and violence, promoting literacy, preventing drug abuse and AIDS, meeting the needs of children, helping the elderly, and
protecting the environment (a program known as Preserve Planet Earth — PPE).
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Rotary International programs such as World Community Service (WCS), Rotary Community Corps (RCC)
and Rotary Volunteers (RV) link communities needing help with Rotary clubs and individuals willing to
provide assistance. Popular RI programs for youth and young adults include Interact and Rotaract service clubs, Rotary
Youth Exchange (RYE), and Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA). Friendship Exchange and Rotary Recreational and Vocational Fellowships (RRVF) are still other ways Rotarians nurture global fellowship.
Supported by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of Rotary, The Rotary Foundation provides humanitarian grants
worldwide through innovative programs. The best-known program is PolioPlus, Rotary’s ambitious program to help achieve the global eradication of polio. Other major initiatives include 3-H (Health, Hunger and Humanity) Grants, Matching Grants, and Peace
programs.
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The Rotary
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The Rotary Foundation’s oldest educational program is Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships, the world’s largest privately
funded scholarship program. The Foundation also awards Grants for University Teachers to teach in less-developed nations and enables
international exchanges of business and professional people through Group Study Exchange. From a modest start, Rotary has spread around the
world and has almost 1.2 million members. Today, Rotary International, the world’s first association of service clubs, fosters fellowship
and provides service on every continent.
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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:
FIRST. The
development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
SECOND. 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;
THIRD. The
application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
FOURTH. The
advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in
the ideal of service.
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The Four-Way Test
Of the things we
think, say or do:
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Is it the TRUTH?
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Is it
FAIR to all concerned?
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Will it build
GOODWILL
and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
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Will it be
BENEFICIAL to all
concerned?
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