-To develop professional and leadership skills.
-To emphasize respect for the rights of others, based on recognition of the worth of each individual.
-To recognize the dignity and value of all useful occupations as opportunities to serve.
-To recognize, practice and promote ethical standards as leadership qualities and vocational responsibilities.
-To develop knowledge and understanding of the needs, problems and opportunities in the community and worldwide.
-To provide opportunities for personal and group activities to serve the community and promote international understanding and goodwill to all people.
(source: Rotaract International)

The organization is based on small clubs which can vary in size from 15 to 50 members. Through community and international service projects, Rotaractors help improve the lives of the people around them. In so doing they develop leadership skills and professional skills and establish a network of friends. Rotaract is friendship in action. The club basically revolves around the four main activities;
• Leadership Development : Rotaract builds leaders and leaders build strong clubs with effective programs. Rotaract clubs organize communication and public speaking seminars
• Community Service : Rotaract clubs are keen to help the community and we achieve this in various ways. Each local club selects the projects it wants to support. These can range from caring for the environment to helping the under-privileged.
• Professional Development : Rotaract clubs help their members make the most informed choices through marketing and management seminars; conferences on business ethics; vocational counseling and career planning programs; and business technology updates.
• International Service : Because Rotaractors want to learn more about other cultures and do their part to promote world peace and understanding, they undertake at least one International Service project each year. Such activities take many forms. Rotaractors raise money for international disaster relief programs; make exchange visits from other Rotaract clubs; and volunteer their professional skills in international development and assistance projects.
Not many social organizations span the globe, benefiting not only their own local communities but the worldwide community. Rotaract succeeds in doing this.
(source: Rotaract International)

• 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.
(source: Rotaract International)

Rotaract and Rotary quite differ from other clubs. There are no forms to "fill in" or any other application in order to sign in. You must be represented by another Rotaractor / Rotarian and he / she will be your sponsor. However, you must meet some requirements:
-Aged between 18 and 30
-Collegue or university student, or graduate
-Apt to be a leader and effective in a social and professional community
You will be invited to a meeting by a member of your acquaintances. An admission committee will evaluate the above criteria and make sure that your field of study is not much widespread within the club.