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RI President 2008- 2009 Dong Kurn "DK" Lee

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Rotary International

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RI Mission Statement

The mission of Rotary International is to support its member clubs in fulfilling the Object of Rotary by:

• Fostering unity among member clubs;
• Strengthening and expanding Rotary around the world;
• Communicating worldwide the work of Rotary; and
• Providing a system of international administration.

The Object of Rotary

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Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions.

The Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions was adopted by the Rotary International Council on Legislation in 1989 to provide more specific guidelines for the high ethical standards called for in the Object of Rotary: As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession.

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Rotary International and other Rotary Organizations

Visit the Rotary International website for all the information
you can imagine, including:

Local Collaboration; -  Rotary: Navigating the Global Network;
- Rotary and the United Nations; -  Rotary's Representative Network

and

Rotary History -  Rotary Milestones -  Object of Rotary -
- Administration Board of Directors - Rotary Foundation  Trustees  -  
- RI and Other Organizations  - 4-Way Test

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:

• FIRST. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
• 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;
• THIRD. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
• FOURTH. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
  

Rotary International Programs Database

Rotary International offers a broad range of humanitarian, intercultural, and educational programs and activities designed to improve the human condition and advance the organisation's ultimate goal of world understanding and peace. Nine Structured Programs and nine Service Opportunities help clubs and districts achieve their service goals in their own communities and in communities abroad, fostering fellowship and goodwill in the process.

Rotary Programs are:  Interact, Rotaract, Rotary Community Corps, Rotary Friendship Exchange, Rotary Fellowships, Rotary Volunteers, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, World Community Service, Youth Exchange Special Program of RI, PolioPlus Disaster Relief, Literacy and Numeracy, Preserve Planet Earth, Urban Peace, Vocational Service RI Awards and Recognition Community Projects