The evolution under the concept of Diversity

Trying to build multiple visions is the same as recognizing you as a human being in evolution.

There is no doubt that there are many ways to study themes, visions and procedures taking into consideration the diversity of the clubs that compose our organization. All takes us to the same point: build a better world and better conditions to live in it.

This takes us to the understanding that the capacity to cohabit of the multiplicity of group of clubs is a very precious wealth

A society with various cultures is different from a multicultural society. On the first one separation are established, on the second links of recognition and complementarities are produced.

The alleged diversity that exists between Rotary clubs or even in the communities to which these clubs render service, are not an obstacle to the evolution that requires overcoming the challenges that imply in:

 Develop and implement strategies of evolution with quality  Decide in which direction to invest the available resources  Build a strong team oriented towards the Object of Rotary and its Strategic Plan  Communicate and practice our core values and beliefs, improving the Public Image, starting with ourselves and our family  Guarantee smooth transitions between administrations

 Face competition

We should never forget the action in Rotary occur in the clubs. For them depends the success of the organization.

The Rotary clubs needs for their action of good thinkers and idealists, but maybe in greater extent they need of hard workers. Their talents whichever they are, are necessary for Rotary to fulfill its mission.

Rotary and the clubs that represent it are a decisive influence for the acceptance of actions. In this globalized world, Rotary may be considered as one of its best and positive influences.

The evolution and future of Rotary may be partially unknown, but not without direction and sense. It is our responsibility to unveil this future and influence its destiny. We may have the audacity to ask more of Rotary in its evolutionary journey, but in response we must have to accomplish more.

Rotary like any other organization has its uses and abuses and is our unavoidable obligation to obtain the best of its uses and abjure the abuses. Whenever we hear, even in an unpretentious conversation in a fellowship dinner an abuse or wrong interpretation or even a distortion of the core values of our organization, a repulsive reaction takes power of our senses and the avoidance that these abuses continue, emerges in our minds. In compensation when we hear or see leaders, even very young ones, expressing their views and convictions with passion and idealism we rejuvenate.

The challenges that we face in the day to day service in Rotary are presented to us, for us to translate these challenges into non negotiable successes. Sometimes the best opportunity to serve is just in front of us and we do not recognize them.

The responsibility of evolution within diversity is one of the values that we practice and it resides in the clubs and the immense variety of its human members ready to serve. The responsibility is of all of us. The sow may be solitary but the harvest will surely be collective.

The Rotary clubs fill the needs of belonging and the needs to have a community in which they participate and act, to the persons that live on small cities and migrate to bigger ones. When they are on a Rotary club this persons understand what they are doing and that they belong to a group of people that are doing good.

Some questions should always be alive in our minds:

 Where can we make the difference?  In what we really believe in?  In what are we really qualified?

Like in a Rotary club we must find the answers to these questions and as Rotarians we must together make the answers come through. We will then evolve even in diversity.

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