Rotary International offers a broad range of humanitarian, intercultural, and educational programs and activities designed to improve the human condition and advance the organization's ultimate goal of world understanding and peace. Nine structured programs and nine service opportunities help clubs and districts achieve their service goals in their own communities and in communities abroad, fostering fellowship and goodwill in the process.

Vocational Service is the way Rotary fosters and supports the application of the Ideal of Service in pursuit of all vocations. Inherent in the Vocational Service ideal are:

1) Adherence to and promotion of the highest ethical standards in all occupations including faithfulness and fidelity to employers, employees and associates and the fair treatment of them and competitors, the public and those with whom one has any business or professional relationships;

2) The recognition of the worthiness to society of all useful occupations, not just one's own or those which are pursued by Rotarians;

3) The contributing of one's vocational talents to the problems and needs of society.

Vocational Service is both the responsibility of a Rotary club and its members. The role of the club is to implement and encourage the objective by frequent demonstration, by application to its own actions, by example and by development of projects that help members contribute vocational talents. The role of its members is to conduct themselves, their business and their professions in accordance with Rotary principles and to respond to projects, which the club has developed.
ROTARY VOLUNTEERS

You can find them working in refugee camps, remote clinics, makeshift hospitals and primitive villages. While many are physicians and dentists, they come from all walks of life. They're Rotary Volunteers. This program is open to Rotarians, Rotaractors, and Foundation Alumni, even non-Rotarians can participate. Those wishing to serve abroad must file a Volunteer Registration Form with the Secretariat office serving their area. They also must receive an invitation to volunteer from the host Rotary club at the site where they wish to serve.

ETHICS

Declaration of Rotarians in Businesses and Professions: As a Rotarian engaged in a business or profession, I am expected to:

1) Consider my vocation to be another opportunity to serve;

2) Be faithful to the letter and to the spirit of the ethical codes of my vocation, to the laws of the country, and to the moral standard of my community;

3) Do all in my power to dignify my vocation and to promote the highest ethical standards in my chosen vocation;

4) Be fair to my employer, employees, associates, competitors, customers, the public, and all those with whom I have a business or professional relationship;

5) Recognize the honor and respect due to all occupations which are useful to society;

6) Offer my vocational talents: to provide opportunities for young people, to work for the relief of the special needs of others, and to improve the quality of life in the community;

7) Adhere to honesty in my advertising and in all representations to the public concerning my business or profession;

8) Neither seek from nor grant to a fellow Rotarian a privilege or advantage not normally accorded others in a business or professional relationship.