ROTARY KEY MESSAGES

Rotary

Rotary is one of the largest and most influential International humanitarian service organizations in the world.

As volunteers, Rotary members have benn serving the needs of communities worldwide since 1905; Today, the 1.2 million women and men of Rotary belong to more than 33,000 clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas

Rotary is a global netwoek of business and professional leaders

Through volunteer service, Rotary members build friendships and enlarge their circle of business and professsional acquaintances; Rotary clubs are nonpolitical and open to all cultures, races and creeds

Rotary and Peace

Rotary promotes peace and international understanding through its educational and humanitarian programs

Rotary sponsors the largest privately funded international scholarship program in the world;
Rotary has teamed with leading universitites around the world to offer a master's degree program in peace and conflict resolution at six Rotary centers for International studies;
Rotary clubs promote peace by initiating thousands of international humanitarian projects every year that address the underlying causes of social instability and conflict, such as hunger, poverty, disease and iliteracy

PolioPlus

Rotary's top philanthropic goal is to eradicate polio worldwide.

Since 1985, Rotary members have contributed more than USD 900 million and countless voluteer hours to help immunize more than two billion children in 122 countries;
Rotary members are currently working to raise another USD 200 million by 2012 to match a USD 355 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.

Rotary and its partners have reduced polio cases by 99 percent worldwide, from 350,000 cases in 1988 to less than 2,000 in 2008

An estimated five million children have been spared disability, and over 250,000 deaths averted; Yet polio still threatens children in pasrts of Africa and South Asia, and remains endemic in four countries: Afghanistan, India, Nigeria and Pakistan

The world must remain committed in order to achieve a polio-free world

If we dont stay the course, experts say polio could rebound to 10 million cases in the next 40 years, negating the world's USD 6 billion global investment; The threat of polio anywhere is a threat to children everywhere

ROTARY is committed to fighting polio until every child is safe from this devastating disease.

Al Purwa DG2010 D3400-Indonesia
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