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Beaver Dam Rotary Club |
What is Rotary? ROTARY 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. ROTARY is the world’s first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905. 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 people’s lives in their local communities and our world community. ROTARY is The Rotary Foundation, which each year provides some US$90 million for international
scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small
that improve the quality of life for millions of people. Rotary is widely ROTARY is PolioPlus, Rotary’s commitment towork with national and international health organi-zations on the goal of polio eradication by the year2005, Rotary’s 100th anniversary. More than onebillion children in developing nations have beenimmunized against polio through PolioPlus grants. |
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