Rotary is a
worldwide organisation
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.
Rotary club
membership represents a
cross-section of the community's business and professional men and
women. The
world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious
and open to
all cultures, races, and creeds.
The main
objective of Rotary is
service in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the
world.
Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of
today's most
critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the
environment,
illiteracy, and violence. They also support programmes for
youth,
educational
opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers and
other
professionals and vocational and career development.
The Rotary motto
is Service
Above Self.
Although Rotary
clubs develop
autonomous service programmes, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a
campaign
for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians
raised
US$240
million to immunise the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's
centenary year
and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the
PolioPlus
program had contributed US$500 million to this
cause. In
addition, Rotary
has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national
immunisation days in polio-endemic countries around the world.
To read more, go to the
RI
web site and put "polio plus" into the search box at the top
of the page.
The Rotary
Foundation of
Rotary
International is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes
world
understanding
through international humanitarian service programs and educational and
cultural
exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions
from
Rotarians and
others who share its vision of a better world. Since 1947,
the
Foundation has
awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational
grants, which
are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.
Other clubs in Southampton
There are 6 other clubs in the city and 4 of them have web
sites.
Rotary Club of Southampton
www.rotarysouthampton.co.uk
Rotary Club of Southampton West
www.rotarysouthamptonwest.co.uk
Rotary Club of Southampton East
www.southampton-east-rotary.org.uk
Rotary Club of Southampton Clausentum
Rotary Club of Hamble Valley
www.hamblevalleyrotary.co.uk
Rotary Club of Hedge End Breakfast
www.hebrc.co.uk
More details of these clubs can be found on the District
site or by
clicking on the
District
button at the top of the page. Details of events organised by
these and other local clubs can be found
here
Special Interest groups
Within Rotary there are special interest Fellowships for
most sports and activities - see
here
for a complete list
- some of those that current members of Magna are involved
with
include:-
Caravanning
ICFR
Classic cars
RRAF
is the British section of the
International group
ACHAFR
Golf
IGFR
Yachting
IYFR
