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Mailing Address
PO Box 48267
Burien, WA 98166
bwcrotaryclub@bwcrotaryclub.org
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About Rotary
Rotary is a worldwide organization of business
and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high
ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the
world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary
clubs located in 166 countries.
Rotary club membership represents a
cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The
world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to
all cultures, races, and creeds.
The main objective of Rotary is service — in
the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop
community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues,
such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and
violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and
international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and
vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.
Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous
service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the
global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to
immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year and the
target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program
will have contributed US$500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has
provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization
days in polio-endemic countries around the world.
The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes world understanding through
international humanitarian service programs and educational and cultural
exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and
others who share its vision of a better world. Since 1947, the Foundation has
awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which
are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.
The Object of Rotary
The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis
of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
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FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an
opportunity for service;
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SECOND. 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;
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THIRD. The application of the ideal of service
in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
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FOURTH. The advancement of international
understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business
and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
Service Above Self
Rotary offers to each member a chance to voluntarily contribute both time and
money, two precious commodities, to help our communities become a better place
to live. The benefit is that we can see our dollars and time have an immediate
effect on Burien and the local community in which live and serve. The
friendships, both local and international, are priceless and afford you the
opportunity to work with other like minded individuals.
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