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WELCOME TO THE ROTARY CLUB OF WINNIPEG

The Club that Made Rotary International in 1910

September 25 to 30 is Truth and Reconciliation week.

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, commemorated each year on Sept. 30, recognizes the history and ongoing impacts of Canada’s residential school system, honouring the children who were lost, survivors of the institutions and their families.

September is Basic Education and Literacy Month

Basic education and literacy is one of Rotary’s six areas of focus. We know that basic education and literacy are essential for reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development, and promoting peace.

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate.

That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population!

Rotary's goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. Rotary supports education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

The Rotary Foundation supports education through scholarships, donations, and service projects around the world.

Rotary takes action to empower educators to inspire learning at all ages.

Our Club has an Education program for Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo and a Rohingya Refugee camp in Bangladesh. We have also sent more than 30,000 books to Northern Indigenious communities in Manitoba.

A special Literacy award presented to our club at the 5550 District Conference in May. This is as a result of our partnership with Indigenous communities and the books we have sent to them.

OUR MISSION STATEMENT

Our Mission: "To create community through fellowship and service, to eliminate poverty and disease and to provide knowledge and opportunity, especially for young people."

Our Vision: "Being an exemplary club in meeting its mission, through a sustainable vibrant membership."