Pace Universal is a school for girls in Piyali Junction, outside of Kolkata, India, funded in part by Rotary clubs and The Rotary Foundation. Rotary’s Empowering Girls initiative encourages projects like this one to empower girls to be able to make choices and create positive change. Elizabeth Usovicz By Elizabeth Usovicz, Rotary International Director, chair…

By Abdulwahab B Akinlade, past president of the Rotaract Club of Ikorodu Golden, Lagos, Nigeria Abdulwahab B. Akinlade Membership is the backbone of organizations like Rotary. My friend Musiliu Babatunde has a favorite song about Rotary, and it is called Wake Up Rotarians. It talks about the importance of membership to a club and how…

Magnus Elfwendahl By Magnus Elfwendahl, past governor of District 2350 and a member of the Rotary Club of Uppsala-Carolina, Sweden Some months ago, I participated in the celebration of 50 years of Peace and Conflict research at Uppsala University in Sweden. During the anniversary symposium some prominent international scholars reflected on big societal challenges and…

Kiran Singh Sirah, Rotary Peace Fellow, speaks at the Rotary Presidential Conference Houston: Serve to Bring Peace 3 June in Houston, Texas, USA. by Kiran Singh Sirah, president of the International Storytelling Center and a Rotary Peace Fellow alum In early June, I was a keynote speaker at the Rotary Presidential Conference Houston: Serve to…

Young women receive training in self defense during a project to empower girls in Kenya. By Roberta Porter, Rotary E-Club of District 5450 I was shocked and stunned as I sat in silence listening to the pain in my daughter’s voice. She was calling me from Kenya where she had travelled as a volunteer with…

Mollie, the unofficial mascot of the PolioPlus Society in Rotary Zones 26 and 27. Editor’s Note: Bob Rogers of the Rotary Club of Sebastopol, California, USA, and Greg Owen, Rotary Club of Long Beach, California, USA, both End Polio Now coordinators, came together to form a PolioPlus Society in their zones. The Society, which encourages automatic…

Paulo Melo of Pacific Beach Rotaract Club, from left, with Derren Lechuga of the Rotary Club of San Diego Coastal, Karla Prieto, Brett Morey, Founder of SURF, and Robert Chamberlain of the Rotary Club of San Marcos during the 2022 Switchfoot BroAM By Raquel D’Garay-Juncal, president of the Rotary Club of Worldwide Impact (District 1550)…

Kunle Adeyanju, left, poises for a selfie with one of the many people he met on his motor ride from London to Lago. By Kunle Adeyanju, Rotary Club Ikoyi Metro A.M, Lagos, Nigeria Nothing worth accomplishing has ever been achieved effortlessly. And this was certainly true of my amazing road trip from London to Lagos…

Jahan Taganova No matter who you are or where in the world you come from, there is one thing that unites us all and makes us uniquely human: our need for clean water. Jahan Taganova is the recipient of a global grant scholarship from District 5340 to pursue a master’s degree in the Water Cooperation…

People displaced by the war in Ukraine arrive at a train station in Pardubice, Czech Republic. April 2022. World Refugee Day, 20 June, is an international day designated by the United Nations to honor refugees around the globe. Members of Rotary and Rotaract clubs have been taking action through a variety of international projects to…