Members of the Rotary Club of Visakhapatnam By Vinay Gandhi Billapati, past president, Rotary Club Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India When I joined the Rotary Club of Visakhapatnam in 2019, I was 31-year-old. People had cautioned me that it was a “very senior club.” The average member age was around 65, and I was told members…
Rona Karimi, fourth from right, during a trip to Hiroshima, with the Hiroshima Peace Memorial in the background. By Rona Karimi, 2023-25 Rotary Peace Fellow at International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan My experiences as a refugee motivated me to seek a Rotary Peace Fellowship. I’ve been labeled in many ways: internally displaced person, refugee in…
Rajdeep Dutta (right) with wife and daughter (middle) at her graduation ceremony in Bangladore, India. By Rajdeep Dutta, Rotary Club of Aarohee, Calcutta, India If your average Rotary meeting resembles a polite gathering of people who say “hear, hear” a lot, Gen Z is probably swiping left faster than you can say “Paul Harris Fellow.”…
Club members in front of the historical marker, including past RI President John Germ (third from left) and Robin Derryberry (fourth from left) By Robin Derryberry, president-nominee of the Rotary Club of Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA The other day, I was driving through downtown Chattanooga when I saw our beautiful historical marker dedicated to the history…
Roshan Karki, right, at the opening ceremony of a president-secretary meet in Hetauda, Nepal, with Rotaractor Shrisha Dhakal. By Roshan Karki, Rotary Club of Rudramati Kathmandu and the Rotaract Club of Manohara, Nepal I joined Rotaract in April 2010, without fully realizing how profoundly it would shape my life. What began as a simple desire…
Strategic placement of End Polio Now stickers can help promote Rotary’s polio eradication efforts. Habiba Bennani By Habiba Bennani, assistant Rotary public image coordinator and a member of the Rotary Club of Tunis La Paix, Tunisia We often wear our Rotary pins or display our logos out of habit, or a quiet pride. But sometimes,…
Young men burn electrical wires to recover copper at Agbogbloshie in Ghana. Photo by Muntaka Chasant by Klenam Fiadzoe, Rotary Club of Accra-South, Ghana In recent years, the climate crisis has shifted from a distant threat to a reality for many Ghanaians. From recycled clothing waste strangling our coastlines to the increasing unpredictability of our…
Since 1990, the National Coalition for the Homeless has led observation of Homeless Persons’ Memorial Day to honor the lives of Americans who have died while homeless in the previous year. Photo by Ken Martin/Street Sense By Sean Spence, Rotary Club of Columbia, Missouri, USA For the past four years, I have helped organize a…
Tina Fischlin, director of the medical mission and a Georgia Rotarian holds the recipient of a cleft lip surgery. By Tina D. Fischlin, past governor of District 6910 and a past president of the Rotary Club of Greene and Putnam Counties, Greensboro, Georgia, USA Sometimes the most powerful changes in the world happen in just…
A woman with a WaterSafe backpack carries water back to her home alongside a donkey outfitted with additional containers. By Connie Cheren, Rotary Club of Charlotte International, North Carolina, USA, and founder of Partners for Care When I first traveled to Kenya in 2007, I thought it would be a short trip, an opportunity to…