Lomard Rotary power point final 2014

Service Above Self

Our Mission

• Provide service to others

• Promote integrity

• Advance world understanding, goodwill and peace through the fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.

• Fellowship and Global Understanding• Ethics and Integrity • Diversity • Vocational Expertise, Service, and

Leadership

Our Values

Our Six Areas of Focus

• Peace and conflict prevention/resolution

• Disease prevention and treatment

• Water and sanitation

• Maternal and child health

• Basic education and literacy

• Economic and community development

• Formed in Chicago in 1905

• 34,000 clubs in more than 200 nations

• 1.2 million members all over the world

The Four-Way Test

Of the Things We

Think, Say or Do

1. Is it the TRUTH?

2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?

2. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?

3. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

• Top Rotary priority since 1985

• Rotary has since contributed $1.3 billion & countless volunteer hours to immunize more than two billion children in 122 countries

• The number of cases has been reduced 99% from 350,000/yr. to about 400 in 2013

• Still strikes children under the age of five in parts of Africa and South Asia and can cause paralysis and sometimes death

We Volunteer at the

Local Food Pantry

We Recycle Bikes

for Isolated Villages

We Recycle Shoes and Handicap Assistive Devices

We Provide $10,000

in Scholarships to

Local Lombard

High School Seniors

By Way of

Our Annual

Reverse Raffle

(ask us about this!)

We Purchase Warm Coats

for Local School Children

We Have Provided

Shelter Boxes to

Disaster Stricken Countries

We have provided funds

to help dig wells in Haiti

We gather for Weekly

Fellowship Lunches

We Have Interesting Speakers

We Welcome New Members

Learn MoreVisit Our Website at www.LombardRotary.org

Check us out and LIKE us on Facebook.com/LombardRotary

Join us for Lunch

Thursdays - 12:15 – 1:30 pm

Casey’s Restaurant

415 E. North Ave.,

Lombard