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Links to Rotary and Other Clubs
Rotary International
www.rotary.org
Rotary District 7070
www.rotary7070.org
District 7070 and Other Clubs
Charity Donor Website
www.charity.ca
Worldwide
* RI Shop - http://shop.rotary.org/catalog
* International Computer Users Fellowship of Rotarians - http://www.icufr.org
* Rotaract International - http://www.rotaract.org
* World Rotary Convention - http://www.rotary2003.org
Rotarians of Agra Taj Hosting & Fellowship Society www.geocities.com/tajhosting
Sites of Interest
* Charity Village - http://www.charityvillage.com
* End of Polio - http://www.endofpolio.org/home.html
* Hungersite - http://www.hungersite.com
These are links to the charities and organizations Rotary supports.
Rotary International
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 29,000 Rotary clubs.
The world's first service club, the Rotary Club of Chicago, Illinois, USA, was formed on 23 February 1905 by Paul P. Harris, an attorney who wished to recapture in a professional club the same friendly spirit he had felt in the small towns of his youth. The name "Rotary" derived from the early practice of rotating meetings among members' offices.
As Rotary grew, its mission expanded beyond serving the professional and social interests of club members. Rotarians began pooling their resources and contributing their talents to help serve communities in need. The organization's dedication to this ideal is best expressed in its principal motto: Service Above Self. Rotary also later embraced a code of ethics, called The 4-Way Test, that has been translated into hundreds of languages.
As it approached the dawn of the 21st century, Rotary worked to meet the changing needs of society, expanding its service effort to address such pressing issues as environmental degradation, illiteracy, world hunger, and children at risk. The organization admitted women for the first time in 1989 and claims more than 90,000 women in its ranks today. Following the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Rotary clubs were formed or re-established throughout Central and Eastern Europe. Today, 1.2 million Rotarians belong to some 29,000 Rotary clubs in more than 160 countries.
Today the head offices of Rotary International are located in Evanston, Illinois, U.S.A.
About Rotary
The Toronto Earlscourt Rotary Club is part of one of the greatest international organizations in the world – Rotary International.
Founded by Paul Harris in 1905 in Chicago, Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders, who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards and help build goodwill and peace in the world. There are over 29,000 Rotary clubs in 163 countries, with nearly 1.2 million members worldwide.
February 2005 marks Rotary Centennial Anniversary. Celebrations are planned all over the world. For additional information and events, please refer to the Centennial website at:
http://www.rotary.org/centennial/
Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
In 166 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.
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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