YOVON, September 25, Asia-Plus — the Dushanbe Rotary Club has donated 10 wheelchairs to disabled people living in Khatlon’s Yovon district.
Four members of the club also visited the Republican Boarding School, dormitories which had been overhauled under financial support of the Dushanbe Rotary Club.
In the village of Dahana, the club members familiarized themselves with a progress of implementation of the safe drinking water supply project. This project was launched last March under financial support of the US Rotary Clubs. The first phase of the project included construction of the pump station. The second phase, which includes replacement of all underground water pipes, is scheduled to be finished by early winter. $6,000 have been provided for implementing this project.
Rotary International is an organization of service club known as Rotary Clubs located all over the world. There are more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries, and there are over 1.2 million members world-wide. The members of Rotary Clubs are known as Rotarians. The stated purpose of the organization is to bring together business and professional leaders to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
The declared objectives of Rotary are to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster: the development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service; high ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations, and the dignifying of each Rotarian”s occupation as an opportunity to serve society; the application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian”s personal, business, and community life; and the advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
