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"Whatever Rotary may mean to us, to the world it will be known by the results it achieves." Paul Harris
 


International Projects of the Aurora Rotary Club
Ambassadorial Scholarship Program  
The Rotary Foundation's oldest and best-known program is Ambassadorial Scholarships. Since 1947 nearly 37,000 men and women from 100 nations have studied abroad under its auspices. Today it is the world's largest privately funded international scholarships program.
International Group Study Exchange
The Group Study Exchange (GSE) program of The Rotary Foundation is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women between the ages of 25 and 40 and in the early years of their professional lives. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.
International Exchange Students
The most powerful force in the promotion of international understanding and peace is exposure to different cultures. The world becomes a smaller, friendlier place when we learn that all people — regardless of nationality — desire the same basic things: a safe, comfortable environment that allows for a rich and satisfying life for our children and ourselves. Youth Exchange provides thousands of young people with the opportunity to meet people from other lands and to experience their cultures. This plants the seeds for a lifetime of international understanding.
Sparrow Village
 Job training and skills taught to the homeless result in the creation and maintenance of  villages to care for those alone and in need. Of great importance is the pride and self-esteem developed as these individuals create a place of dignity and care for the homeless and dying. After perfecting their skills they leave the village to become entrepreneurs, adding responsible businesses and families to the economy of the local communities.
Rotary International Foundation
The Rotary Foundation is a not-for-profit corporation that supports the efforts of Rotary International to achieve world understanding and peace through international humanitarian, educational, and cultural exchange programs. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share its vision of a better world.

World-Wide elimination of Polio
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative is recognized worldwide as a model of public and private cooperation in pursuit of a humanitarian goal. In the words of United Nations General Secretary Kofi Annan, "Rotary's PolioPlus program is a shining example of the achievements made possible by cooperation between the United Nations and non-governmental organizations.
Twin Club Program
 In the Twin Club Program, two clubs from different countries establish strong ties and agreed to team up to promote an international service project, Rotary Youth Exchange, or Friendship Exchange.

SSSSH - RYLA/Interact International Program promoting anonymous giving.
Performing a good act for another as quietly and inconspicuously as possible. Learning to give anonymously. Acts of kindness by Rotarians.

Tuskegee Airmen Book Project - supplying libraries with books on WWII Black Military Heroes
 Honoring the accomplishments and perpetuating the history of African-Americans who participated as pilots or in air crew, ground crew and operations support training in the Army Air Corps during WWII
 


 "Individual efforts may be turned toward individual needs -
but combined effort should be dedicated to the service of mankind.

The power of combined effort knows no limitation . . . .

The cumulative power of  Service Organizations and Governments working together has never been felt.

What if … the International Community worked together to support those who want to help themselves...

we could reduce world poverty by millions within 20 years!!

 
 
 



Discussions with the Rotary Clubs of Paarl,
Capetown and Honeydew, Johannesburg

  • Some of the most important facts discovered during research on S. Africa to prepare for our African trips:
    ** Rotary Clubs in South Africa are one of the few service or political groups that have not been disrupted by political, historical and social issues within the last 50 years.
    ** It is has had continuous growth and membership involvement.
    ** This would be a great country to start "test" villages and to perfect the design development of Sparrow Village Hospices.
 
  • Rotary Clubs, in all nations...have been trying to set up programs in one way or another to help children, the sick, the dying, the jobless and the homeless, …one club at a time ... one project at a time. 

  • Sparrow Village Project's goal is to accomplish a connection (synergy) between districts. 
 
  • Several districts monitoring the building of a "Sparrow Village". Organizing volunteers to train the unemployed and homeless to build maintain and care for the village.

  • While, Districts from several countries raise the funds for the Sparrow Village Project.  This synergy will make the building of hospices a reality in the NEAR future.
 
  • Rotary Clubs in South Africa are one of the few service or political groups in Africa that have not been disrupted by political, historical and social issues in the last 50 years.  Rotary has had continuous growth and membership involvement.

  • S. Africa would be a great country to start "test" villages and to perfect the design development of hospice villages.  Our goal would be to have these villages become self-sustaining within the first few years.
 
  • If the designs were based on an original set of plans, Sparrow Villages around the world would be a significant visual signature of the work produced by Rotary International and it's partners.

  • This shared vision would identify one goal, one service club and many nations working together to provide for those in need. 
 
  • Rotarians are the catalyst by which these hospices could be built in mass.

  • If we use the same model and partnerships as the International Polio Eradication Campaign to organize a 2-3 year training, building and PR plan, we could build 100's of villages worldwide in a one year campaign blitz.
 


Entrepreneurs are the future. 
We cannot help everyone, everywhere...but we can help Entrepreneurs
(those that want to help themselves) everywhere. 


Let's become ONE for the future. 

We can make a difference!
 


No other time in history, or probably in the future, will an organization be so poised to do so much...Rotary with it's connections to WHO, UNICEF and other organizations....is the only service club with the experience of the International Polio Eradication Campaign ... that is positioned to make this happen!
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