Empower lives with your generosity
The Rotary Foundation’s mission is simple: “to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, support of education, and alleviation of poverty.” Over the years, it has grown into one of the most respected humanitarian organisations in the world with contributions supporting a wide range of projects aimed at addressing critical global challenges.
As we celebrate Diwali, the festival of lights, it is time to light up other lives through TRF and its many worthwhile programmes. Rotary’s projects are designed with sustainability in mind. Whether it’s providing water filters, setting up health clinics, or empowering local entrepreneurs, the Foundation’s initiatives focus on long-term solutions, helping communities become self-sufficient over time.
TRF has consistently earned high ratings from independent charity evaluators like Charity Navigator for its financial transparency and efficient use of funds. More than 92 per cent of contributions are spent directly on programmes, ensuring that donations make a real difference. In fact, Charity Navigator has given TRF a 4-star rating for the 16th year in a row.
The Foundation’s top priority is the End Polio Now campaign. Rotary members have contributed more than $2.7 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly three billion children in 122 countries from this paralysing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort. Ending Polio is not about the money, but about saving and protecting the children of the world.
It is important to support our End Polio Now Fund. Join the PolioPlus Society in your district and engage all members in this historic moment when we are so close to ending polio forever. And don’t forget that the Gates Foundation continues to amplify Rotary’s donations to polio eradication with a 2-to-1 match for every dollar.
Ancient texts tell us that anonymous giving is the best form of giving; where neither the donor nor the recipient knows one another and where the giving helps the recipient become self-reliant. Foundation giving is just that ‘best’ form of giving. When we give to TRF we do not know who will benefit in which part of the world; but the good wishes and the silent blessings of the beneficiaries will come to the donor again and again.
Thank you for your dedication to The Rotary Foundation. It is your acts of caring, kindness and generosity that play an essential role in advancing our mission to do good in the world. That is the magic of The Rotary Foundation.
Bharat Pandya
TRF Trustee
