SELF Read all the way through, or use the main menu below to go to a specific area of interest. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA, on 23 February 1905.
Membership is by invitation and refects a wide cross-section of community representation.
More than one-half billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. Membership Rotary International is the association of Rotary clubs around the world. Rotary clubs select their own service projects based on local needs and requirements. Clubs work on projects relating to health, hunger, environmental concerns, literacy and vocational assitance, drug abuse, and assisting senior citizens and young people.