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We are a very active Rotary club. We have lot's of fun while helping others!
Each member of our club is dedicated to the Rotary motto: Service Above Self.

Rotary International is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide
who provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help
build goodwill and peace in the world. In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately
1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs.

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 programs for youth, educational opportunities and international
exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development.

Rotarians work in the Four Avenues of Service:
International Service
Community Service
Club Service
Vocational Service

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize 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 will have contributed US$500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

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.