What is Rotary

For those people who are unfamiliar with Rotary, Rotary International is an organisation of Rotary Clubs, each comprising business and professional men and women united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

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.