Rotary is a worldwide 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. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 31,000 Rotary clubs located in 166 countries.

Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize the children of world;by 2005, Rotary's centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program will have contributed US$500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes world understanding through international humanitarian service programs and educational

and cultural exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and others who share its vision
of a better world. Since 1947 , the Foundation has awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.

Our club, Rotary Club of Secunderabad Sunrise (RCSS) , Chartered in December 2001 ; is a relatively new entrant into this wonderful movement, and in the short span of about six years, has contributed significantly to the community through several service projects. RCSS is one of the youngest clubs in District 3150 with the members in the average age of 38 years. RCSS symbolizes the values of togetherness and fellowship, and these virtues have made the members stand up and be counted at all times of need. As our name "Sunrise" signifies , we generally meet for our weekly meeting over Breakfast .


The Object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of serviceasbasisofworthyenterpriseand,inparticular,toencourage and foster:

FIRST:The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;

SECOND: High ethical standards in businessandprofessions, the recognition of the worthiness of all use-full occupations,and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occuptaion 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.