Rotary is an international membership organization made up of people who share a passion for and commitment to enhancing communities and improving lives across the world. Rotary clubs exist in almost every country. Our members change lives locally and connect with other clubs to work on international projects that address today’s most pressing challenges. Being a member is an opportunity to take action and make a difference, and it brings personal rewards and lifelong friendships in the process.
About Rotary
Rotary brings together a global network of volunteer leaders dedicated to tackling the world’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. Rotary connects 1.2 million members of more than 35,000 Rotary clubs in over 200 countries and geographical areas. Their work improves lives at both the local and international levels, from helping families in need in their own communities to working toward a polio-free world.
Club Meetings
Rotary clubs hold regular meetings where their members gather to socialize and to discuss their current projects, other Rotary matters, and professional topics. While most clubs meet in person, some clubs meet primarily online or have a combination of in-person and online meetings. Rotary is both apolitical and nonreligious, and Rotary clubs are encouraged to create an inclusive environment for all club members at their meetings. Meetings can be formal or informal and can include food and drinks, speakers, an open forum for discussion, or group activities. The more you participate in your club’s meetings and activities, the better overall experience you will have as a member.
The 4 Way Test
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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.
“Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves.”
At today’s business meeting, Rotarian Riquette Bonne-Smith, Director of International Service spoke of her plans for a possible concert fundraiser in Martinique for December and a joint youth symposium to be announced at a later date. Rotarian Patrick from Martinique would be the main speaker.
Past President Selma, Director of Club/Community Service gave a few upcoming dates for finalization of activities related to Club and Community Service. There will be a Club Assembly on Wednesday September 18th at Auberge Seraphine. Dates for our Annual Charter Dinner and a Feeding Program for the month of October are to be confirmed shortly.
Treasurer Keturah Charles-Donai advised the following:
1. Members are paying their dues. Receivables went down by 25%
2. member Statements were emailed to some and hard copies were available to members
3. All RI and District dues have been paid for the first half of the Rotary year
4. Members were encouraged to make contributions to the Bahamian victims. The monies will be put on the Rotary special account and then transferred to the Rotary Club of the Bahamas
Past President Albert Daniels was our raffle prize winner this week, which was a full body massage from Calabash Cove Resort & Spa.
President Leevie Herelle gave a few brief remarks on the Walk for Youth and Diabetes initiatives. The date and logistics are to be advised at a later date.
(Contributed by Past President Selma St. Prix - Director, Club Service)
22 More Wheelchairs Delivered Today
10 special and 12 regular wheelchairs were presented recently to the CDGC in Vide Bouteille. District Governor Elect Lisle Chase, Past Presidents Matt and Konrad represented our Rotary clubs. More on this presentation will be forthcoming in the wider media shortly.
On 29 September 1979, leaders of Rotary International sat down with Philippine officials in a muddy schoolyard outside Manila. There they signed an agreement that launched a five-year partnership to provide the oral polio vaccine to 5.3 million children in the Philippines. Among other things, Rotary, under the auspices of its fledgling Health, Hunger and Humanity program, pledged more than $700,000 to the endeavor.
About 100 children received the vaccine that sunny September day. RI President James L. Bomar Jr., who administered the first dose in what became Rotary’s global fight to eradicate polio, dedicated his program to the mothers assembled in the schoolyard and to their children and their children’s children. M.A.T. Caparas, a Philippine lawyer, Rotary director, and future RI president, reminded his listeners that "great things always have a small beginning."
After administering that first dose, Bomar felt a tug on the leg of his pants. "I looked down through the maze of human beings surrounding me," he recalled, "and spotted a small boy who was crippled [with polio]" and whose sister had just received the vaccine. A grin spread across the boy’s mud-streaked face and he said, "Thank you, thank you, Rotary."
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