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    09 July 2008
 
Rotary Centenary
Rotary Ethos
The motto of Rotary is “Service above Self”

ROTARY is:

  • ROTARY is a service organisation of business and professional leaders united worldwide who help those in need, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and work toward world understanding and peace
  • ROTARY is compassion for the underprivileged, the ill, and the disabled, who benefit from over 50,000 Rotary Club service projects in the world.


Rotary Achievements

The objects of Rotary are -

  1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service.
  2. High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society.
  3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business and community life.
  4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

THE 4-WAY TEST

Of the things we think, say or do:

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?