Material For International Service Committee

As a club committee chair you help make your club a successful, thriving, and fun place. Whether you have been appointed as a committee chair or serve as a committee member, you can help your club improve your communities and develop leaders.

 

International Service exemplifies our global reach in promoting peace and understanding. We support this service avenue by sponsoring or volunteering on international projects, seeking partners abroad, and more. International Service encompasses efforts to expand Rotary’s humanitarian reach around the world and to promote world understanding and peace. It includes everything from contributing to PolioPlus to helping Rotary Youth Exchange students adjust to their host countries. It also encompasses actions taken to expand Rotary's humanitarian reach around the globe and to promote world understanding and peace. In this area, Rotarians strive for the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service. International Service Projects are designed to meet the humanitarian needs of people in many lands, with particular emphasis on the most underprivileged children and families around the world. According to Rotary International, the overall objective of an international service committee is to "promote greater awareness, direct lines of communication, and accountability for all types of international service."

 

Some of the responsibilities of the Club International Service Committee include:

• Increasing awareness of, and participation in, the various international service opportunities that are available to every club, including
  • investment in and partnership with existing and upcoming international projects and grants
  • speakers and programs in international service
  • projects done by or with clubs in other countries, districts, or areas
  • related international connections such as youth exchange, friendship exchange, RI International Conventions, volunteer service opportunities, Rotary Peace Centers, Polio Plus, and international scholars.
• Coordinate and share information and activities of your club's involvement in international service.
• Provide assistance to or partner with clubs in Rotary Grants implementation (either directly or by making connections) and other related Rotary Foundation issues as applicable. 
• Participate and contribute to existing opportunities for international service collaborations such as that offered to clubs in District 7030 via the Caribbean Partnership.
• Conduct any other activities associated with the effective operation of the club.