The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. Rotary is the world's first service club. Rotary is some 1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging to more than 28,000 Rotary clubs in virtually every nation in the world. Rotarians 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.
Rotarians plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch lives in their local communities and our world community. Rotary is widely regarded as the world's largest private provider of international educational scholarship. Rotary is PolioPlus , Rotary's commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2000, Rotary's 100th anniversary. More than one billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.