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About Rotary
Definition of Rotary
Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional, and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the motto Service Above Self, Rotary’s main objective is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world.
Mission Statement
The mission of Rotary International is:
To support its member clubs in fulfilling the Object of Rotary;
To globally promote the concept of service as a worthy endeavor;
To strengthen and expand Rotary to communities around the world; and
To foster unity among member clubs of the association.
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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