Rotary International focuses on nine major causes: Promoting peace, Fighting disease, Providing clean water, sanitation and hygene, Saving mothers and children, Supporting education, Growing local economies and Protecting the environment. Withing this mantle Rotary has worked for many years to promote peace. The following videos show Rotarians engaged in this program program.
The Rotary Club of Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada, partnered with the First Baptist Church and the Holy Family Catholic Church in Amherst to sponsor the Alchehade family from Homs, Syria. The family of six were seeking asylum because of the ongoing civil war in Syria. Day in the Life story about the family learning to connect with their new community - at home, school, work, play - and how members of RC Amherst are coordinating services to assist them.
Seven Women Centre is a nonprofit that offers fair-trade products and services. Stephanie Woollard, a member of the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, and a former Rotary Peace Fellow, started the organization in 2006 to empower marginalized women in Nepal. The women receive skills, literacy, and financial training that helps them increase their income and independence. Seven Women products are sold throughout Australia and at a shop at their center in Kathmandu.
In 2009, PACT Peace Program kept a young offender out of prison. Nine years later, we see his evolution. An initiative of 30 Rotary Clubs in Toronto, Canada.
In Kampala, Uganda, you'll find the Rotary Peace Center at Makerere University - the first of its kind in Africa. This center is all about giving peacebuilders a boost throughout the continent. Rotary Peace Fellows learn how to influence policies and initiate action to transform society through Positive Peace. Learn more at rotary.org/peace-fellowships.