More than 775 million people in the world over the age of 15 are illiterate.  That’s
17% of the world’s adult population.  Rotary’s goal is to strengthen the capacity of
communities to support basic education and literacy, to reduce gender disparity in
education, and increase adult literacy.  It accomplishes this by taking action to
empower educators to inspire learning at all ages.  It supports education through
scholarships, donations, and service projects, and it shares its knowledge and
experience with educators and other professionals who work with vulnerable
populations. 
 

Rotarians make amazing things happen by opening girls' schools in Afghanistan to
break the cycle of poverty and social imbalance.  In the US Rotarians partnered with
ProLiteracy Detroit to recruit and train tutors to help the functionally illiterate.  
And in South Africa, Puerto Rico and the US, educators are taught how to improve
literacy by teaching children how to recognize letters by sounds rather than names,
and in Lebanon it provided clean water to public schools so students can be
healthier and get a better education. 


When you teach somebody to read, they have that for a lifetime.  It ripples through
the community one by one.  Your contribution to the Rotary Foundation enables that
to happen.  Thank you.

As a global organization that operates in nearly every country in the world and deals in 29 currencies, Rotary takes stewardship of its funds seriously.  Our money is spent on life-changing, sustainable grants, as well as programs and services that support our member’s transformative work.  We have invested $3 billion in thousands of projects over the past 100 years.


 Donating to The Rotary Foundation means clean water and sanitation - health and hope in areas that were once ravaged by diseases like polio - economic development and new opportunities. Your financial help makes all this happen, and more.


 As the holiday for giving fast approaches, we hope that you will consider giving where the need is greatest.  Giving to The Rotary Foundation works because Rotary works.  Over 90.8% of donations go straight to supporting our service projects.  Our 35,000 clubs carry out sustainable humanitarian service projects.  Using your donations we’ve wiped out 99% of all polio cases.  Your donation trains future peacemakers, support clean water, and strengthen local economies.

 

Your donation can save a life and many more.


 

Please consider donating generously to The Rotary Foundation this coming season.  It will definitely Make A Difference!  You can go online and type in Rotary.org Donate!