Does your club sponsor a Rotaract Club? Are there one or more in your District? Your clubs' investment in publicizing its work and in developing new leaders through Rotaract clubs can lead to places you'd never dream. In 1984, a young Nigerian in his second year of...
Each Rotary International Convention has not only group sessions with great speakers, but small breakout sessions in numerous topics. This year's convention in Taipei, Taiwan will have 73 of these on Monday through Wednesday, June 15th-17th. Seating at breakout...
Who do you know who would make a good candidate for a Rotary Peace Fellowship? Applications are open until May 15th for 2027-28 Rotary Peace Fellowships. If you know someone with a background in peace and development, encourage them to apply for the opportunity to...
New reports of poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: no WPV1 cases and no WPV1-positive environmental samples. The most recent case was on October 24, 2025. There were 13 cases in 2025. Benin: no cVDPV2 cases and no...
New reports of poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: three WPV1 cases and four WPV1-positive environmental samples. The most recent case was on October 24, 2025. There were 13 cases in 2025. Benin: no cVDPV2 cases and two...
Pushpi Weerakoon first earned a bachelor of law and a postgraduate diploma in international and commercial law from the University of Buckingham in the United Kingdom. Then, she went on to obtain a PhD in peace and conflict studies with a diploma in peace studies and...
Registration is open for our August 27-30 Zone Institute in historic New Orleans. We'll be staying at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside, located at the foot of Poydras Street, next to the Riverwalk, Paddleboat Creole Queen, only a block from Canal Street and the...
New reports of poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Afghanistan: one WPV1 case and five WPV1-positive environmental samples. The most recent case was on October 20, 2025. There were 10 cases in 2025. Algeria: no cVDPV1 cases, no...
(No, that's not a typo in the headline.) In this month’s Rotary magazine, there’s notice of an event coming up on February 28th and sponsored by The Rotary Club of Independence, MO (D6040). Each year, the club hosts this Mardi Gras celebration featuring food, fun,...
New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Germany: Two WPV1 positive environmental samples and no cVDPV2-positive environmental samples. Nigeria: Nine cVDPV2 cases, one cVDPV2-positive environmental sample, and five cVDPV3 cases. Pakistan:...
Rotary's newest Peace Center at Symbiosis International University was inaugurated this week on January 26th. The Center is on the University's Lavale campus in Pune, India. Offering a fully-funded one year postgraduate diploma program in Peace and Development...
New poliovirus cases and positive environmental isolates this week: Democratic Republic of Congo: No cVDPV1 cases and three cVDPV2 cases. Pakistan: No WPV1 cases and 7 WPV1-positive environmental samples. There have been no reported cases in 2026 and there were 30...
