About Rotary - What Is Rotary?

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Rotary International is a World fellowship of men and women united by the ideal of service. Acknowledged as the World’s first service organisation, there are over 32,000 clubs world wide, with a membership in excess of 1.2million and is based in almost170 countries.

The spirit and ideal of Rotary, which has attracted so many from different races, faiths, and cultures.

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

 

• The development of acquaintance as an opportunity of service
• High ethical standards in business and professional life, the recognition of worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society
• The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life.
• The advancement of international understanding goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of persons united in the ideal of service

The principles of service, understanding and goodwill are sustained by the fellowship which a Rotarian enjoys with fellow members is a club, and the mutual understanding and relationship which are shared with fellow Rotarians throughout the World. Rotarians are encouraged to serve individually and as members of their clubs through their vocations and by the application of service to their personal, business and community lives.

Rotary and the Rotary Club exist as corporate bodies for the purpose of inspiring and encouraging the individual Rotarian to apply the principal of service, and studying and recommending specific ways of carrying out that principle.   

Rotary divides its general objective of service into four main avenues

• Club Service
• Vocational Sevice
• Community Service
• International Service

The avenues are particular expressions of the same ideal and seek to interest and involve each Rotarian in all four activities. Club Service is both the objective of fellowship and the machinery by which the relationship between members and the vocational, community and international objectives are fostered.

Fellowship is not an end in itself but is the beginning of a stimulus to the real purpose of service through vocation and through community and international life.