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What is Rotary

Video: Rotarians answer the question, "Why join Rotary?"

Rotary, the world's first service club was founded in Chicago in 1905.

The Rotary Foundation each year provides some $60 million (in U.S. Dollars) for international scholarships, cultural exchanges, and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.

The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is a public-private partnership led by national governments and spearheaded by the World Health Organization (WHO), Rotary International, the Gates Foundation, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF). Its goal is to eradicate polio worldwide. At a glance:

Video: After 25 years of hard work, Rotary and its partners are on the brink of eradicating this tenacious disease, but a strong push is needed now to root it out once and for all. It is a window of opportunity of historic proportions.

Three countries remain: Afghanistan, Nigeria, and Pakistan

25 years of operation

200 countries involved

20 million volunteers

2.5 billion children immunized

Majority of children that contract the disease are under five years old

>$1 billion (in U.S. Dollars) invested by Rotary

>$8.2 billion international investment

Estimated $40 to $50 billion to be saved over the next 20 years

Learn More: http://www.endpolio.org/

Humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs: Rotary plans and carries-out a remarkable variety of humanitarian, educational and cultural exchange programs that touch people's lives in their local communities and our work community.

Video of Desmond Tutu Rotary World Peace Symposium

Membership: Rotary is a membership-by-invitation organization, and is based upon vocational classification. Attendance at meetings is a basic obligation and a member may make up a meeting at any Rotary Club in the world.

Governance: Rotary International is governed by a board of directors composed of 17 zone directors, a president-elect and an international president. Each zone is broken up into geographic districts. District governors provide leadership, motivation, and guidance to their Rotary clubs.

2012-2013 Rotary International President - Sakuji Tanaka (Rotary Club of Yashio, Saitama, Japan)

2012-2013 Rotary District 5870 Governor - Rick Price (Rotary Club of Mexia)

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2012-2013 Officers:

RI President: Sakuji Tanaka

District 5870 Governor: Rick Price

Club President: Sandy Wilder
President Elect: John-Michael Cortez
Secretary: Robert Noland
Treasurer: Lisa Garcia
Programs: John-Michael Cortez
Foundation Chair: Lisa Garcia
Membership Chair: Michael Borsellino
Public Relations:
Community Service Tyra Duncan-Hall
International Service: Margarine Beaman
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Web Master: Robert Noland

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2012-2013 Officers:

Past Presidents:

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