About the club
A local club in a worldwide network
We are one of more than 46,000 Rotary clubs around the world, and the one that calls Anuradhapura home.
Who we are
The Rotary Club of Anuradhapura (Club No. 15963) brings together local professionals, entrepreneurs and community leaders who share one idea: that people working together can improve their community.
Rotary began in Chicago in 1905, when Paul Harris gathered a few colleagues to build friendship and give something back. Today about 1.4 million members in more than 200 countries and regions carry that idea forward, and each club decides which needs in its own community to meet.
Our club does that here in Anuradhapura, and joins the wider Rotary network when a challenge is bigger than one town.
Our emblem
The wheel and the stupa
The Rotary wheel, with its six spokes and twenty-four cogs, stands for civilisation and for work that turns into progress. Beside it stands the great white stupa of Anuradhapura, our place and our heritage.
Club No. 15963
What we stand for
Rotary's five core values.
- Service
- Fellowship
- Diversity
- Integrity
- Leadership
Five avenues of service
The framework behind everything a club does:
- 1
Club Service
Strong friendships and a well-run club, because good projects need people who trust each other.
- 2
Vocational Service
Members bring their professions to the community and hold themselves to high ethical standards at work.
- 3
Community Service
Practical projects that answer the needs of our neighbours here in Anuradhapura.
- 4
International Service
Working with Rotary clubs across the world on projects no single club could carry out alone.
- 5
Youth Service
Leadership and service for young people through Interact (ages 12 to 18) and Rotaract (ages 18 to 30).
The Four-Way Test
Of the things we think, say or do
- 1
Is it the TRUTH?
- 2
Is it FAIR to all concerned?
- 3
Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
- 4
Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned?
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