About Rotary
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that
provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all
vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately
1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 166
countries.
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.