About Rotary

Rotary is an organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world.

By numbers

• There are approximately 1.2 million Rotarians that belong to
• 32,000 clubs in more than
• 200 countries and geographical areas.
• There are 56 Rotary Clubs (district 7070) in the Greater Toronto area.

The Object of Rotary
Rotary's aim is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise through the following:

• 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.