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WHAT IS
ROTARY?
ROTARY IS:
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 February 23, 1905
Rotary is some
1.2 million service-minded men and women belonging
to nearly 29,000 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 the world community.
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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 Polio Plus,
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 the developing nations have been immunized against
polio through Polio Plus grants.
Rotary is ….
SERVICE ABOVE SELF. THE ROTARY CLUB OF NORTH FORT
MYERS was chartered on June 14, 1973, by our Charter
President, Richard “Dick” McConville.
This year we will celebrate our 33rd Anniversary,
and Dick is still a very active member of our club.
Our club meets at 8:00 A.M. every Thursday morning
at Del Tura Country Club - 18621 N Tamiami Trail, North Fort Myers.
Over the 33 years these are
just some of our community service projects and
Recipients of over $610,000 from our fundraisers
Alzheimer’s
Association |
ECHO
(seed program) |
American
Cancer Society |
Elementary
School Projects: |
Big
Brothers, Big Sisters |
Bayshore
Elementary |
Boy
& Girl Scouts |
Hancock
Creek Elementary |
Caloosa
Nature Center |
J.
Colin English Elementary |
Children’s
Science Center |
Littleton
Elementary |
Children’s
Hospital, Health Park |
Tropic
Isles Elementary |
College
Scholarships |
Exchange
Students |
Christmas
Baskets |
Florida
School for the Deaf |
Dictionaries
for 3rd Graders |
Florida
Literacy Group |
Disaster
Relief: |
Foundation
for Lee County Schools |
| Earthquakes |
Good
Wheels |
Hurricanes |
Habitat
for Humanity |
Kosovo |
Harvest
America |
Tsunami |
Hope
Hospice |
9/11 |
NFM
High School: |
Interfaith
Caregivers |
Arts
Program |
Jacksonville
Univ Students |
Project
Graduation |
Kids
with Cancer Center |
Scholarships |
Leukemia
Society |
seminars,
etc. |
MDA |
Outreach
Drug Program |
MS
Patient |
Ronald
McDonald House |
Visually
Impaired Persons |
Youth
Soccer |
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