Category: Rotary Focus Areas
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Environment
“Our planet’s alarm is going off, and it is time to wake up and take action!” – Leonardo DiCaprio The environment is the seventh area of Rotary’s Areas of Focus. Ever thought about the requirement of a new area in RFA? Rotary always focuses on the areas which will contribute to the world to make…
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Rotary Focus Area 06 : Community Economic Development
Among all the Rotary Focus Areas, Community Economic Development is perhaps the trickiest to address but yields the most opportunity for sustainable growth in the long term. It is not merely something to be resolved overnight, but a multi-faceted issue spanning across the entire economy that needs to be addressed systematically. In 2021, nearly 800…
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Rotary Focus Area 05 : Basic Education and Literacy
“Education is not a luxury; it is a basic human right.” – Madonna For every human being, Education is a basic need and a fundamental right. The quality of a person’s life is solely determined by his or her educational attainment. What is the reason for that? This is due to the fact that education…
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Rotary Focus Area 04 : Maternal and Child Health
As maternal and newborn mortality rates rise worldwide, mothers and children are becoming increasingly vulnerable. One of Rotary’s core concerns is maternal and child care. Rotary has spent the last several years working to enhance access to high quality care for women and children in low-income backgrounds, giving them long-term prospects for a healthy future.…
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Rotary Focus Area 03 : Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene
“Water is our most precious resource, a ‘blue gold’ to which more than 2 billion people do not have direct access. It is not only essential for survival, but also plays a sanitary, social and cultural role at the heart of human societies,” – Director-General of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay.[1] Amongst the seven focus areas that…
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Rotary Focus Area 02 : Disease Prevention and Treatment
“The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.” – Joseph Conrad For centuries past, diseases of varying levels have ravaged the planet, and more often than not, the accessibility to proper and immediate treatment has been nigh impossible. Bearing this in mind, Rotary International has created its Second Focus Area as…
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Rotary Focus Area 01 : Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention
“The road to war is well paved, The road to peace is a wilderness.” – Paul P. Harris – What is Peacebuilding and Conflict prevention? “Peacebuilding and Conflict Prevention”, does not have a natural home, but this does not mean it should not have a central place in our responses to some of today’s global…