Robert Yudkin

Rotary provides opportunities to help others and improve the world in a structure that supports these efforts – at the local, statewide, national, and international level. There are 1.2 million Rotary members in 46,000 Rotary clubs across just about every country in the world. While coordinated across the world, clubs have individual personalities and projects. Rotarians are both leaders and team members. Bring an idea and passion and watch Rotarians take action.

Twenty years ago, I volunteered for what I thought would be a one-and-done weeklong effort at a 20+ year old Rotary eye clinic in Mexico started by one Rotarian in Texas. Now, 20 years later (and 40 years after it started), I help run the clinic. Rotary lets me improve the world in ways that I could never do myself in projects that I never could have envisioned with camaraderie forged from shared values and action.