Area of Action or Territory During many years it has prevail the concept of club locality as its territory, to define the limits of action of that club. With the purpose to increase membership or even to promote extension, the clubs were incentivized to share its locality or territory or promote the cession of part of it to charter a new club. Some of these changes have been done without the necessary correction on its Constitution and By Laws. As a consequence important information was lost, particularly the identity of the club with the community it served or should serve. In localities where three or more clubs are chartered, it starts to be undefined in which community these clubs should be concentrating their efforts to render service. This is more evident when governors in their official visit are repeatedly invited to visit the same local authority. I was asked one day while I was a district governor by one of these authorities, when I was visiting him for the fifth time on that year, taken by the club President of that locality: “Governor, if I want to talk to Rotary in this town, whom do I look for?”. A clever question and the answer was only one: “You must talk to the eight club Presidents of the clubs in this town”. In another occasion I was questioned by a club president that acted in an area of the city where on weekends many families like to go to the several gastronomic restaurants that exist over there. These families were approached on their cars by fellow Rotarians of other clubs to sell promotion articles for collecting contributions for their promo-
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