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| Rotary Facts Rotary is a global network of community volunteers: 31,000 clubs in more than 165 countries; 1.2 million business and professional leaders, men and women, young and old, providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards, and building goodwill and peace in the world. The Rotary Club of Warwick, Rhode Island (established 1949, over $1,000,000 raised for charities), 130 men and women strong, supports the following Organizations and Community Projects: Warwick Boys & Girls Club, 3rd Grade Dictionary Project, Holiday Food Baskets, Warwick Scholarships, Kent County YMCA, Junior Achievement, Kent County Hospital, Cornerstone Adult Services, House of Hope, West Bay Community Action, Boy Scouts (Troop 51) and Girl Scouts, Childreach, Save the Bay, Rotary International Polio Eradication, MS Society, and many more. |
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Object of Rotary 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 meeting business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his or her occupation as an opportunity to serve society. Third. The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his or her 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. |
Four Avenues of Service Club Service "It is when you give of yourself that you truly give." - Khalil Gibran Arab philosopher and poet What is Club Service? Club Service, Rotary's first Avenue of Service, is regarded by many Rotary leaders as the most important part of the club mechanism, because without a vitally functioning club, little else can be performed via the other three Avenues of Service. A significant distinction between Club Service and other Avenues is that Club Service is directed toward the internal functioning of the club - to maintain its health and vigor - while the other Avenues are directed outward toward the local community and the larger world in which we live. Vocational Service "The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs."- Ralph Waldo Emerson What is Vocational Service? Vocational Service, Rotary's second of the four Avenues of Service, is an obligation of all Rotarians which, because it is frequently misunderstood, has also been frequently neglected. For many years, Vocational Service was solely a personal responsibility - one that required individual Rotarians to represent their vocations within their clubs and uphold high ethical standards in the workplace. In 1987 the RI Board adopted the following statement, which substantially expanded the scope of Vocational Service to require collective club activities as well as the traditional individual commitment. Community Service "One cannot rise to become a leader in a community in the civilized world without being involved in its problems without being convulsed in its agonies, and inspired by its causes." - Winston Churchill What is Community Service? Often described as the "heartbeat of Rotary", Community Service, the third Avenue of Service, is as many-pronged effort to improve the quality of life within a municipality. As chairperson of you club's Community Service Committee, you are charged with the responsibility of guiding your club's share in this effort. International Service "The idea that you at Rotary are undertaking to send around the world is that of peace and understanding, and I submit that the best way you can carry that message is to wrap it up in each one of you, for each of you can assume responsibility in his own way and according to his own lights to further the concept of peace and human understanding."- Sol Linowitz former U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States What is International Service? A foundation for peace is built of many small efforts to advance understanding and goodwill among people of different nations and to improve the quality of life. As chairperson of your club's International Service committee, you are charged with the responsibility of guiding your club's share in these efforts. The Board of Directors of Rotary International regards the building blocks of International Service as: special international observances and events; international meetings; international educational and cultural activities; The Rotary Foundation; and World Community Service. |
