ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL
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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

• WORLDS FIRST SERVICE CLUBS ORGANIZATION

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Rotarys motto SERVICE ABOVE SELF
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In 1905, Paul Harris founded the first Rotary
Club in Chicago
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The first social project in Chicago
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Further development of Rotary
goals and ideas worldwide from
the United States to all
other continents
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ACTUAL SITUATION

• 1,200.000 ROTARIANS MEN AND WOMEN
• READY TO SERVE

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Rotary 4-Way Test

• Is it the truth ?
• Is it fair to all concerned ?
• Will it build goodwill and friendship ?
• Will it be beneficial to all concerned ?

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MORE THAN 100 YEARS TRADITION
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Rotary Centennial Bell
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Chicago hometown of Rotary
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• Where the very first Rotary Club meets
  regularly

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RI WORLD CONVENTION IN CHICAGO 1905
2005
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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ENTERS INTO THE SECOND
CENTURY OF ITS SERVICES
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Carl-Wilhelm Stenhammar, Sweden, RI World
President 2005/06
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William B.Boyd, New Zealand, RI World
President 2006/07
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Bill Lorna Boyd in Prague 2005
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Four avenues of Rotary activities and services
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• Club Service
• Community Service
• Vocational Service
• International Service

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Social services
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Clean water management
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HELP FOR HUNGRY PEOPLE
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TSUNAMI DISASTER RELIEF
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HELP TO THOSE HANDICAPPED
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Full respect to the seniors
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EDUCATION

• basic literacy in all continents
• short-term youth exchange
• long-term youth exchange
• family exchange
• training of young professionals
• ambassadorial scholarships

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BASIC LITERACY IN THE DEVELOPING WORLD
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LITERACY IS THE PRE- CONDITION OF SOCIAL
PROGRESS ANYWHERE
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Short-term Youth Exchange
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Long-term Youth Exchange
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Youth is enabled to meet the history
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Rotary youth summer camps
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Social-cultural activities
restoring historical art works
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Beneficial concerts
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International contacts
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Personal contacts to top persons
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ROTARY PUBLIC RELATIONS ARE WELCOME AND NEEDED
EVERYWHERE
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THE ROTARY FOUNDATION AND ITS
PROGRAMS
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Rotary PolioPlus Programis the most
important and effective one worldwide
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Rotary PolioPlus Program started in 1987
to eradicate
polio worldwide Rotarians
invested already US 650,000.000
to this program
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Rotarians apply polio oral vaccine anywhere
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Formerly 300,000 new polio cases a year now
only some hundreds
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ROTARIANS OFFER IMMEDIATE HELP DURING NATURAL
DISASTERS

• ShelterBoxes are helping immediately where
  actually needed

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Group Study Exchange
between Rotary Districts
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Successful RYLA seminars
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Direct engagement of the youthINTERACT
ROTARACT CLUBS

• 18 30 years

• 14 18 years

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The youth is our future
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Manifold International Fellowships
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Mutual agreement on cooperation between D.2240
and Czech Scouts signed in May, 2006
IFSR
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Two years scholarships on Rotary Centers
for International Studiesin peace and conflict
resolution
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• International Christian University, Tokyo,
  Japan
• University of Queensland, Brisbane,
  Queensland, Australia
• University of Bradford, Bradford, West
  Yorkshire, England
• Sciences Po, Paris, France
• Duke University and University of North
  Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA
• University of California-Berkeley, California,
  USA
• Universidad del Salvador, Buenos Aires,
  Argentina

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World Understanding and Peace
Keeping Scholarships
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Ambassadorial Scholarships abroad
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STRUCUTRE OF RI

• RI Headquarters in Evanston -Chicago, IL, USA
  with its World President on the
  top
• 529 Rotary Districts guided by their
  District Governors in 169 countries
  
• 32.000 Rotary Clubs headed by
  Club Presidents
• 1,200.000 Rotarians of both genders

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RI International AssemblyTraining for all
529 District Governors takes place every year in
San Diego
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RI Council on Legislation in Chicago meets every
three years
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Rotary consists in

• high ethical standards
• volunteer services
• open friendship
• internationality

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ROTARY INTERNATIONAL SERVES OUR WORLD
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Conceived by Dobroslav Z e m a n ,
PDG, Founding President of the
Rotary Club of Pilsen, Czech Republic Pilsen,
July 2006