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Apply Now for Youth Advisory Council

Apply Now for Youth Advisory Council

Rotary International’s Youth Advisory Council is the international body that advises the RI Board of Directors on our youth programs and shapes their future. It is comprised of three current Interactors or Interact alumni, three recent RYLA alumni, and three...
Combatting Social Isolation is in Our DNA

Combatting Social Isolation is in Our DNA

In his autobiography, Paul Harris said, ““Everywhere there were people but nowhere a familiar face” in describing the loneliness and social isolation that he and others had experienced when away from friends and family. He said that in creating Rotary he...
Pakistan Polio Progress

Pakistan Polio Progress

Pakistan reported fewer than half as many cases of polio in 2025 than in 2024. Pakistan’s National Emergency Operations Centre for Polio Eradication, reported 30 cases in 2025, down from 74 a year earlier. No new infections have been reported anywhere in the...
December 17th Polio Update

December 17th Polio Update

New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: The most recent confirmed polio case in Afghanistan was reported in October. The number of WPV1 cases in 2025 is 9. There were 23 in 2024. Chad: One cVDPV2 case, two cVDPV3 cases and no...
Lee’s Summit Rotary clubs fight food insecurity

Lee’s Summit Rotary clubs fight food insecurity

A small annual project started in 2007 by Lee’s Summit Sunrise Rotary Club (D6040 MO) to support a single charity, has grown over ten-fold to raise as much as $220,000. “Empty Bowls/Feed Lee’s Summit” now involves all three of the city’s Rotary clubs...