The Rotary Foundation and Membership Development The transforming volunteership There is a direct relationship between Rotary’s Membership Development and The Rotary Foundation. If Rotary’s business is to transform our world in a better place, to transform human beings into better persons, change the paradigm and revert the growing deterioration of values, fighting to maintain the values for which we fight for, the Rotary Foundation while doing good in the world demonstrates that it is totally identified with the Object of Rotary. And it could not be different. It is worthwhile to remember that it is better to participate of an organization like Rotary that works to transform the world in a better place, than to belong to a crowd that watch all that is happening “over the wall” doing nothing. While developing a project granted by our Foundation, that takes us through the road mentioned above, we are expanding our war shout to insensitivity, to anomy. By doing this and by the visible result of these projects, we create conditions to attract new social responsible members of our community to join us, doing their best to satisfy their anxiety to do good in the world that initially attract them. There is a great difference between doing what is possible and doing the best that is possible. Rotarians must do the best that is possible and not
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