Rotary International
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.
In more than 160 countries worldwide, approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 30,000 Rotary clubs. Rotary membership represents men and women from the business and professional community, and it is 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.
Community service is comprised of the effort Rotarians make to improve the quality of life within their service areas. Sometimes in conjunction with other organizations, or individuals, these efforts have many facets. International service is made up of all those things Rotarians do to advance world peace and understanding.
Local History
The Littleton Rotary Club was founded in July 1927 (the first Rotary Club was founded in Chicago in 1905). Currently, our club has 60 members from throughout our service area. Membership is by invitation, and is offered to representatives of each business, profession, or institution through a classification system ensuring a wide cross section of the community is represented.
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.
