Growing Local Economies
Nearly 800 million people live on less than $1.90 a day. Rotary members are passionate about providing sustainable solutions to poverty.
Our members and our foundation work to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.
We provide training and access to well-paying jobs and financial management institutions.
How Rotary makes help happen
We create opportunities to help individuals and communities thrive financially and socially.
Agricultural opportunities
Entrepreneurs in rural communities can borrow money to buy livestock or plant crops, or get training in sustainable farming.
Adopt a village
Rotary members use a multifaceted and coordinated strategy to break the cycle of poverty in extremely impoverished communities.
Human rights
Rotary helps Tanzanians with albinism overcome stigma and superstition to find safety and a livelihood.
Training
Rotary International and Heifer International are teaching farmers to extend their growing season and help residents eat healthier, local food.
Rotary members make amazing things happen, like:
Opening schools: In Northern Uganda, Rotary members opened a girls’ school to break the cycle of poverty and social imbalance.
Teaching adults to read: Rotary members in the United States partnered with ProLiteracy Detroit to recruit and train tutors after a study showed that more than half of the local adult population was functionally illiterate.
New teaching methods: The SOUNS program in South Africa, Puerto Rico and the United States teaches educators how to improve literacy by teaching children to recognize letters by sounds instead of names.
Making schools healthy: Rotarians are providing clean, fresh water to every public school in Lebanon so students can be healthier and get a better education.
Enhancing educational systems: In Uganda, Rotary clubs are working with the Global Partnership for Education and local and national governments to advance life-long learning opportunities for poor and marginalized children.
The Rotary Foundation supports education through scholarships, donations, and service projects around the world.
Our impact on education
500
adults raised their reading levels by three grades in Detroit
$
100
millions
in grants to get clean water in ugandan schools
'' When you teach somebody how to read, they have that for a lifetime. It ripples through the community, one by one.''
Mark Wilson
Rotary Club member
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