Rotary Club - An International Social Service Organization

About Rotary International

Rotary is a worldwide organization of more than 1.2 million business, professional and community leaders. Members of Rotary clubs, known as Rotarians, provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.

There are 33,000 Rotary clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Clubs are non-political, non-religious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds. As signified by the Rotary motto, Service Above Self, Rotary’s main objective is service: in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world.

Our Purpose

Rotary International’s mission is to provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through its fellowship of business, professional and community leaders.

Rotary encourages and fosters the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and to encourage and foster:

1. The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
2. High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian’s occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
3. The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian’s personal, business, and community life;
4. The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.

Avenues of Service

Based on the Object of Rotary, the Avenues of Service are Rotary’s philosophical cornerstone and the foundation on which club activity is based.

Club Service:

Focuses on strengthening fellowship and ensuring the effective functioning of the club.

Vocational Service:

Encourages Rotarians to serve others through their vocations and to practice high ethical standards.

Community Service:

Covers the projects and activities the club undertakes to improve life in its community.

International Service:

Encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace.

New Generations Service:

Recognizes the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities, service projects, and exchange programmes.

Avenues of Services of Rotary Club Bangkok South

The Four-Way Test

The test, which has been translated into more than 100 languages, asks four questions of the things we think, say or do:
Is it the TRUTH?
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?

Diversity and Rotary

Rotary International recognizes the value of diversity within individual clubs.
Rotary encourages clubs to assess those in their communities who are eligible for membership, and to endeavour to include the appropriate range of individuals in their clubs.
A club that reflects its community regarding professional and business classification, gender, age, religion, and ethnicity is a club with the key to its future.