•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 nearly 27,00 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 is by invitation and 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$60 million for international scholarships, cultural
exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve
the quality of life for millions of people.
• ROTARY is PolioPlus, Rotary´s commitment to work with national
and international health organizations on the goal of polio
eradication by the year 2005, Rotary´s 100th anniversary. More
than one-half billion children in developing nations have been
immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants.
Rotaract Club Tripolis is always keeping close relationships with its
sponsoring club, the Rotary Club of Tripoli.
This is through active participation in meetings (as well as frequent
visits to other local Rotary Clubs).
The sponsoring club always receives a copy of the monthly bulletin, updates
about projects and events, and of course, this web site.
Rotary is also the first place to look for potential new members.
