Category: Rotary’s Areas of Focus

Rotary Peace Fellowships: training peace and development leaders

February 20, 2023

By Christine Torres, Senior Marketing and Recruitment Strategist, Rotary Peace Centers Promote peace in the world by encouraging peace and development leaders in our communities to apply for the Rotary Peace Fellowship. Each year, Rotary awards fully funded fellowships for peacebuilders from diverse backgrounds to study at one of the Rotary Peace Centers located at … More Rotary Peace Fellowships: training peace and development leaders

Train civil society to be peace ambassadors in your community

February 9, 2023

Building Unity for Peaceful 2023 Elections in Sierra Leone By Loretta Raider, Team Leader of Mediators Beyond Borders International’s Sierra Leone Project, and Principal of The Raider Consulting Group, a global firm focusing on organization development and peacebuilding Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI), a Rotary International service partner and non-profit organization that builds skills for … More Train civil society to be peace ambassadors in your community

Be a disruptor for peace: 4 ways to generate peaceful change

February 2, 2023

By Rebecca Crall, Areas of Focus Manager, Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention In a recent conversation with a group of professional peacebuilders, one of my colleagues (and a new Rotary member) surprised me when he referred to Rotary as a “disruptor for peace.” A disruptor for peace? That was something new and unexpected. Disruption signals significant, … More Be a disruptor for peace: 4 ways to generate peaceful change

The Rotary Action Group for Addiction and Prevention can help your club fight drug abuse and addiction in your community

December 22, 2022

By Rotary Action Group for Addiction Prevention Do you have a drug addiction problem in your community? The Rotary Action Group for Addiction Prevention (RAG-AP) can help. We are a group of Rotary-affiliated specialists who help clubs and districts develop community action plans for the prevention of addiction and illicit drug use. This global problem … More The Rotary Action Group for Addiction and Prevention can help your club fight drug abuse and addiction in your community

Rotary International-Peace Corps Week highlights ways this partnership promotes peace around the world

December 15, 2022

By Rotarian Wick Rowland, Ph.D., Niwot Rotary Club (Colorado, USA), Returned Peace Corps Volunteer, and board member of Partnering for Peace. The second annual Rotary International – Peace Corps Week, which took place 19-23 September 2022, explored a range of issues in peacebuilding, from high-level institutional challenges to the detailed workings of several projects on … More Rotary International-Peace Corps Week highlights ways this partnership promotes peace around the world

Lessons learned in Rotary’s fight against malaria in Zambia

December 8, 2022

By Axel von Bierbrauer, The Rotary Foundation Cadre Technical Adviser, and member of the Rotary Club Neunkirchen/Saar, Germany Najuma (29) lives with her three-year-old daughter Alika and two other children in a small home in a village near Mpika, in Zambia’s northeastern Muchinga province, 650 km from the capital Lusaka. The rural province is one … More Lessons learned in Rotary’s fight against malaria in Zambia

Bringing Free Preventive Healthcare To All 

December 1, 2022

By Rotary Action Group for Family Health and AIDS Prevention The Rotary Action Group for Family Health & AIDS Prevention (RFHA) is a Rotary International-recognized action group that mobilizes and guides Rotary members to take on sustainable projects to promote healthy families and communities around the globe. RFHA creates and implements large scale community development … More Bringing Free Preventive Healthcare To All 

Spread the word about how toilets save lives and our groundwater systems

November 19, 2022

By Claudia Urbano, Service and Engagement Senior Communications Specialist at Rotary International Do you have access to a clean and safe toilet? Not everybody is so fortunate. Millions of people relieve themselves in the open air because they do not have access to a toilet, which spreads disease and kills thousands of children every day. … More Spread the word about how toilets save lives and our groundwater systems

Rotary and Mediators Beyond Borders International Partner to Train Community Mediators

November 17, 2022

By Lina Stahl, Mediators Beyond Borders International In 2019, a small group of visionaries from four Rotary districts in Zone 22, Southern Africa, approached service partner Mediators Beyond Borders International (MBBI) to build social cohesion throughout the region by training a cohort of 100 community mediators to celebrate the Rotary’s Centennial on the African continent. … More Rotary and Mediators Beyond Borders International Partner to Train Community Mediators