What is Rotary?

Rotary is an international association of business and professional leaders who provide humanitarian service, promote high ethical standards in all vocations and help build goodwill and peace in the world.  With 1.2 million members and 29,500 clubs, Rotarians initiate community projects that focus on the most serious issues confronting people around the world: violence, drug abuse, AIDS, hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and the eradication of polio.

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Rotary Foundation Group Study Exchange

The Group Study Exchange (GSE) programme is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for young business and professional men and women in the early stages of their careers.  The programme is designed to develop professional and leadership skills among young adults to better prepare them to address the needs of their communities and an increasingly global workplace.

• It enhances a global perspective.
• It promotes open-minded thinking through contact with business and professional people of other cultures.
• It fosters creative approaches to problem solving by broadening the employee’s outlook.
• It improves an employee’s professional skills through exposure to alternative methodologies.

The programme provides travel grants for teams of young participants to exchange visits between paired areas in different countries.  For four to six weeks, team members study the host country’s institutions and ways of life, observe their own vocations as practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.