Rotary Club of Millersburg
What is Rotary?
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.
- the world's first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905, by Paul Harris.
- some 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 28,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world.
- 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.
- PolioPlus, Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary's 100th anniversary. More than one billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants. Polio Facts
Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and cul-tural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our world community.
The Rotary Foundation, 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.
For more information about Rotary, log onto the Rotary International web site.