Chicopee Rotary Club

About :

Rotary is a service organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide who conduct humanitarian projects, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations and work toward world understanding and peace.

Rotary is more than 1.1 million service-minded leaders belonging to over 26,030 Rotary Clubs in over 186 countries and geographical regions. Membership is by invitation.

Rotarians meet weekly to enjoy each other’s fellowship and discuss ways to serve others.

Rotary is compassion for the underprivileged, the ill and disabled, many of whom are the beneficiaries of over 51,000 service projects conducted by the Rotary Clubs in the world each year.

Rotary adds fulfillment each year to the lives of some 7000 young people of secondary school age as they study in countries other than their own.

The Rotary Foundation spends more than $65 million dollars annually on a variety of educational and humanitarian programs to promote international understanding.

Rotary sponsors Interact, over 7,500 service clubs for young people of secondary school age in more than 95 countries.

Rotary sponsors Rotarct, over 6,000 service clubs for young adults, ages 18 through 30 in more than 120 countries.

Rotary began in 1905 in Chicago by Paul Harris. The international headquarters is in Evanston, Illinois and there are branch offices in nine countries on five continents.