Rotary is an international service organization founded in 1905 by Paul Harris, a Chicago attorney. It has grown into a global network of more than 35,000 clubs with over 1.2 million members in almost every country in the world.

Service Above Self

Rotary is dedicated to seven areas of focus to build international relationships, improve lives, and create a better world.
The seven areas of focus are:
Promoting Peace
Fighting Disease
Providing Clean Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
Saving Mothers and Children
Supporting Education
Growing Local Economies
Protecting the Environment

El Club Rotario de la Habana, Cuba.

The Charter of the United Nations.

Rotary holds the highest consultative status offered to a nongovernmental organization by the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which oversees many specialized UN agencies. The Rotary Representative Network maintains and furthers its relationship with several UN bodies, programs, commissions, and agencies. This network consists of Rotary International representatives to the United Nations and other organizations.

Ambassador Scholarships have been awarded since 1947.

PolioPlus Eradication Program. As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease.

Five. Woodrow Wilson, Warren Harding, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Gerald Ford.

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India with more than 150,000 Rotarians.

“Comfort Stations” in downtown Chicago. Public restrooms were typically found only in saloons at that time, and unaccompanied women were not allowed in saloons.