Our Causes
As Rotary members, we share the same goal: making meaningful change in communities around the world. We’ll take on any challenge if we can make a difference for the good of all, including projects like these:
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Promoting peace
We foster understanding and interaction between people of different backgrounds and cultures. We take action to support refugees and train adults and young leaders to prevent and mediate conflict to create a safer and more harmonious world for all people.
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Fighting disease
Building on our successful fight to eliminate polio, we bring together global experts, national health systems, and local leaders to improve and expand access to health care and prevent the spread of diseases like malaria so that everyone can lead healthy lives.
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Providing clean water, sanitation, and hygiene
We share our expertise and partner with communities to increase access to vital water, sanitation, and hygiene services and resources particularly in schools and healthcare facilities so that more communities and people can grow and thrive.
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Improving maternal and child health
By connecting mothers and children to nutrition, health care, and sanitary tools, we increase wellbeing for families and communities.
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Supporting education
We strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy at all stages of learning, through training teachers and focusing on foundational literacy skills, opening up new possibilities for the future.
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Growing local economies
Leveraging the collective business and professional expertise of our members, we expand the potential for economic development, especially for youth and women, so that more people and communities can prosper.
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Protecting the environment
Together with local leaders, we take action to find innovative solutions and develop sustainable service projects to strengthen our local ecosystems and our planet and create a greener and more stable future for us all.
Ending polio forever
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for over 45 years, and our goal of ridding the earth of this disease is in sight. We started in 1979 with vaccinations for 6 million children in the Philippines. Today, Afghanistan and Pakistan are the only countries where polio remains endemic.