Our Causes

Rotary encourages conversations to foster understanding  within and across cultures. We train adults and young leaders to  prevent and mediate conflict and help refugees who have fled dangerous  areas.

 We educate and equip communities to stop  the spread of life-threatening diseases like polio, HIV/AIDS, and  malaria. We improve and expand access to low-cost and free health care  in developing areas. 

  We support local solutions to bring  clean water, sanitation, and hygiene to more people every day. We don’t  just build wells and walk away. We share our expertise with community  leaders and educators to make sure our projects succeed long-term. 

   Nearly 6 million children under the age  of five die each year because of malnutrition, poor health care, and  inadequate sanitation. We expand access to quality care, so mothers and  their children can live and grow stronger. 

    More than 775 million people over the  age of 15 are illiterate. Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of  communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender  disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. 

     We carry out service projects that  enhance economic and community development and create opportunities for  decent and productive work for young and old. We also strengthen local  entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished  communities. 

     Rotary members are tackling  environmental issues the way they always do: coming up with projects,  using their connections to change policy and planning for the future. 

      Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for over 35 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.