January is Rotary Awareness Month

Celebrate Rotary Awareness Month by training members on Rotary history, programs, or how to raise awareness of your club’s projects among your community. Or, ask members to share a personal story or experience that they have had because of Rotary. Every Rotarian has a Rotary story that can be educational and inspiring. The beginning of a new year is a good opportunity to renew inspiration for the rest of the Rotary year.

Here are some of the facts about Rotary that you and your fellow club members are probably well aware of:

• Rotary is the world's largest private provider of international Scholarships (helping more than 1,000 students each year to study abroad and serve as cultural ambassadors to help build goodwill and promote peace).
• Rotary has been instrumental in the worldwide effort to eradicate polio, an idea formed in East Tennessee by Bill Sergeant of Oak Ridge.
• Rotary has 1.2 million members in 32,000 clubs in 200 countries worldwide.
• All over the world Rotarians conduct projects to battle illiteracy, disease, hunger and lack of clean water.