About Rotary - Rotary Club of Accra West

What is Rotary?

Rotary is a worldwide organisation of business and professional persons who:

Provide humanitarian service to the community at local, national and international level
Encourage high ethical standards in all vocations
Work for goodwill and peace in the world

                Global Reach: Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 33,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas.
            

Rotary Leads Global Effort To Eradicate Polio

PolioPlus, the most ambitious programme in Rotary's history, is the volunteer arm of the global partnership dedicated to eradicating polio. For more than 20 years, Rotary has led the private sector in the global effort to rid the world of this crippling disease. Today, PolioPlus and its role in the initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public-private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal.

About Rotary Clubs

Rotary clubs are non-political, non-religious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. Meeting weekly allows members to build firm friendships. Rotarians can attend any Rotary club meeting anywhere in the world, so there is always somewhere to go, and people to meet, wherever business or leisure travel may take you.

These principles have been developed over the years to provide Rotarians with a strong, common purpose and direction. They serve as a foundation for our relationships with each other and the action we take in the world.

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:

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.

The Four-Way Test

The Four-Way Test is a nonpartisan and nonsectarian ethical guide for Rotarians to use for their personal and professional relationships. The test has been translated into more than 100 languages, and Rotarians recite it at club meetings:

Of the things we think, say or do:

Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Avenues of Service

We channel our commitment to service at home and abroad through five Avenues of Service, which are the foundation of club activity:

Club Service: Focuses on making clubs strong. A thriving club is anchored by strong relationships and an active membership development plan.
Vocational Service: Calls on every Rotarian to work with integrity and contribute their expertise to the problems and needs of society.
Community Service: Encourages every Rotarian to find ways to improve the quality of life for people in their communities and to serve the public interest.
International Service: Exemplifies our global reach in promoting peace and understanding through international projects and partnerships.
Youth Service: Recognizes the importance of empowering youth and young professionals through leadership development programs such as Rotaract, Interact, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards, and Rotary Youth Exchange.

The Rotary Foundation

The mission of The Rotary Foundation is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

The Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.