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What is
Rotary?
- Rotary is a service
club, a human organisation founded in 1905, whereby people of like mind
work together to serve others.
- The benefits to Rotary
to you will be derived through your interaction with other
Rotarians in the pursuit of common goals.
- Essentially, Rotary is
an ideal, an ideal in action. To be a Rotarian is to affirm that one
should place "Service above Self" in all that one does and especially in
our daily work.
- In its short history
Rotary has built up a district and international organisation. That
organisation network is merely supportive of individual Rotarians and
Clubs in their pursuit of the Rotary ideal. Knowledge of Rotary's
structure is desirable for members, but not essential nor expected of new
members. The path to Rotary knowledge is through involvement.
- While a new Rotarian may
be happy to consider Rotary an ideal, continued involvement will lead to
an appreciation of Rotary as a special experience. Interaction between
Club members and Rotarians from other clubs will expose you to people of
different faiths, opinions and nationalities, but all growing in
fellowship. You will find yourself discovering, with other Rotarians, your
responsibilities to each other and the power of your combined efforts in
purposeful action.
- Rotary is a means by
which individual skills, your skills, may be enhanced by harnessing them
with the skills of others to achieve a common purpose.
- The factor that
translates Rotary from an ideal to an experience is its humanity. Rotary
is in the people-business. It is for people concerned about other people.
Rotary is built around Club fellowship through which members may express
concern for one another and out of which concern for others grows.
- Rotarians are encouraged
to belong to their particular trade, commercial or professional
organisations, but are urged to refrain from dividing their interest and
energies by accepting membership in other Service clubs.
The Objective of Rotary
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 for service.
(Club Service)
- High ethical standards
in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all
useful occupations as an opportunity to serve society.
(Vocational Service)
- The application of the
ideal of service by every Rotarian in his or her personal, business and
community life.
(Community Service)
- The advancement of
international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship
of business and professional people united in the field of service.
(International Service)
THE FOUR WAY TEST of
the things we think, say or do:
- IS IT THE TRUTH?
- IS IT FAIR TO ALL
CONCERNED?
- WILL IT BUILD
GOODWILL AND BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- WILL IT BE BENEFICIAL
TO ALL CONCERNED?
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