The Rotary Foundation &

Our Areas of
Presenters: Madu Bishnu, International Serv Chair,
Focus
E Club of Melbourne, RID 9800, Australia
Ivis Peña Del Chiaro, Rotaract Director District 4271, Secretary
Barranquilla Oriente Rotary Club, Colombia
Date : June 8, 2017
 The Rotary Foundation

The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into

service projects that change lives both close to home
and around the world

 During the past 105 years, the Foundation has spent more
 .
than $3 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects
 How does The Rotary Foundation use
donations?

Our 35,000 clubs carry out sustainable service projects that support
our six causes. With donations like yours, we’ve wiped out 99.9
percent of all polio cases. Your donation also trains future
peacemakers, supports clean water, and strengthens local
economies.
 What impact can one donation have?

It can save a life. A child can be protected from polio with as little as
60 cents. Our partners make your donation go even further. For
every $1 Rotary commits to polio eradication, the Bill & Melinda
Gates Foundation has committed $2.
 The Rotary Foundation´s expenditures
(in millions)

91% of funds are

spent directly on
programs
 The Rotary Foundation & Our Area of Focus

The 7 Areas of Focus are as follows :

Promoting Peace

Fighting Disease

Providing Clean Water

Saving Mother & Children

Supporting Education

Growing Local Economies

Protect Environment
 Promoting Peace

Conflict and violence displace millions of people

each year. Half of those killed in conflict are
children, and 90 percent are civilians.
Rotary refuse to accept conflict as a way of life. Rotary projects provide
training that fosters understanding and provides communities with the
skills to resolve conflicts.
 Promoting Peace

Through Rotary service projects, peace

fellowships, and scholarships, Rotary
members are taking action to address the
underlying causes of conflict, including
poverty, inequality, ethnic tension, lack of
access to education, and unequal
distribution of resources.

Rebuild  Help refugees integrate and

find jobs

Traininig  Help leaders learn how to

prevent and mediate conflict

In action  Supports peacebuilding in

communities and regions affected by
conflict
“I wanted to do something to help
prevent war, rather than addressing its
consequences”.
Robert Opira
Rotary Peace Fellow, University of Queensland, 2005-07
.
 Figthing Disease

Our health is everything. Yet 400 million people

in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to
basic health care. Rotary believes good health
care is everyone’s right

Alzheimer´s

Malaria

Polio
 Providing clean water

Clean water and sanitation is a human right.

When people, especially children, have access to
clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, they lead
healthier and more successful lives.

Rotary don’t just build wells and walk away. Rotary members
integrate water, sanitation, and hygiene into education projects.
When children learn about disease transmission and practice good
hygiene, they miss less school. And they can take those lessons home
to their families, expanding our impact.
Providing clean water
Providing clean water
 Saving mother and children

Rotary makes high-quality health care available

to vulnerable mothers and children so they can
live longer and grow stronger.

KEEPING CHILDREN ALIVE

DURING THEIR FIRST
YEAR

SUSTAINABLE PROGRAMS

CLEAN BIRTH
If mothers are empowered and
healthy, so are their families,
leading to an alleviation of
poverty and hunger.” Robert
Zinser,
co-founder of the Rotarian Action Group for
Population and Development and retired president
for Asia at chemical giant BASF
.
 Supporting Education

More than 775 million people over the age of 15

are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult
population.

Rotary´s goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to

support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in
education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for
all children and literacy for children and adults.
When you teach somebody how to
read, they have that for a lifetime. It
ripples through the community, one by
one”.
Mark Wilson
Rotary Club member
 Growing local economies

Nearly 800 million people live on less than $1.90

a day. Rotary members are passionate about
providing sustainable solutions to poverty.

Rotary members work to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community

leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.
We provide training and access to well-paying jobs and
financial management institutions.
Growing local economies
 What Rotaractors can do :

Rotaractors can approach their sponsoring Rotary Club to do the

projects jointly

Rotaractors can approach local leading companies to work jointly

for the projects

Rotaractors can raise funds on their own and help in the projects

Rotaractors can involve themselves in Global Grant projects as

Partners-in-Service
 What Rotaractors can do :

Rotaractors can also involve RCC’s (Rotary Community Corps) for

the projects.

Rotaractors can do GG projects on Fighting Disease, Providing

Clean Water, Saving Mother’s & Children, Supporting Education
and Growing Local Economies. These projects Rotaractors can also
do on their own. Regarding Promoting Peace, Rotaractors would
sure need help of Rotarians
Questions?
Madu Bishnu, madhubish27@gmail.com
Ivis Peña Del Chiaro, ivisdelchiaro@gmail.com
This presentation and others from
the convention are available through
throughout
the convention mobile app and on SlideShare
at
www.SlideShare.net/Rotary_International.
 Rate this session in the
Rotary Events app,
available in your Apple or
Android app store.