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The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians foster and encourage the ideal of “service above self” through the betterment of business and professional ethics, promote international understanding and goodwill, and provide humanitarian service.
Rotary International has a decentralized structure, with local clubs that are autonomous and community-based. Each service club works to improve the quality of life locally and around the world. Rotary members have the collective expertise and skills to implement dynamic and sustainable programs in the areas of hunger, poverty, and illiteracy, with particular emphasis on children, the aging, and the disabled. The Rotary Club of Cambridge (Preston-Hespeler) partners with Cambridge Memorial Hospital and Kidsability to support local health care, particularly for disabled children. Internationally we support education and health care in disadvantaged communities, in recent years for rural Maasai in Tanzania and rural poor in Guatemala and the Dominican Republic. Fellowship is an important part of membership. We make sure that our weekly meetings are something to look forward to. Partners are welcome to participate, and we share our club friendships through many social events through the year. Members of the Rotary Club of Cambridge (Preston-Hespeler) enjoy the benefits of an automatic social membership in the Galt Country Club. If you have a passion for helping in the community, if you have skills to contribute, and if you want to join a group of your peers dedicated to helping those less fortunate, we welcome you! E-mail rotarysocialnetwork@gmail.com to inquire about joining! Members of our club are committed to joining forces with members from 35,000+ other clubs to work together to support Rotary's Areas of Focus: Helping special needs children, fight disease, provide clean water, sanitation and hygiene, support education and grow local economies.
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Our Club Supports Rotary Poilo Programs
Rotary, along with our partners, has reduced poilo cases by 99.9 percent worldwide since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979. We are close to eradicating polio!
