Members of a Rotary Club are part of a diverse group of professional leaders working to address community and international service needs and to promote peace and understanding throughout the world.
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Rotary clubs receive a charter from the worldwide organisation - Rotary International |
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Rotarian belongs to a particular Rotary club after being invited to join that club. |
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Rotary districts are a way of grouping a number of clubs in a particular geographic area. The area covered quite often crosses state and even national boundaries. |
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Rotary District 9790 encompasses the northern suburbs of Melbourne and stretches north and north east of Victoria to the Murray River and up into the southern parts of New South Wales. |
Founded by Paul Harris in 1905 Rotary International has become one of the most successful service organisations in the world. Raised in a rural village in Vermont, Paul had a vision of a club for professionals that would rekindle the fellowship he had known in his youth. Harris could never have known what a huge impact this first club would have on the world. He met up with three friends - a coal dealer, a merchant tailor and a mining engineer. At this first meeting the men committed to growing the group and decided that the business leaders they would attract should meet regularly to enjoy camaraderie. Meetings were rotated among their places of business and so ........the name “Rotary” emerged and so too did the commitment to improve the lives of the less fortunate. |
Rotary is the world's first service club. It is made up of 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 32,000 Rotary Clubs in virtually every nation in the world. |
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Rotarians meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership reflects a wide cross-section of community representation. |
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Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community. |
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Rotary is The Rotary Foundation, an essential arm of Rotary which each year provides some US$90 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely regarded as the world’s largest private provider of international educational scholarships. |
