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Why Rotary Foundation Giving Matters

actual students benefiting from the “mBots Robots for Primary Schools” project, funded by the Foundation, Districts in Serbia, US, USAID

actual students benefiting from the “mBots Robots for Primary Schools” project, funded by the Foundation, Districts in Serbia, US, USAID

Look at these faces. Children and a teacher, at a desk absorbed in a laptop, a big a small thing. It is the beginning of everything we say we care about.

Education is the one of the quietest and most powerful tool the Foundation funds. A child who can read can question. A child who can question is harder to deceive, harder to recruit into hatred, harder to frighten into cruelty. Most hate is not born in the heart — it is taught to a mind that was never given anything better to hold. Education fills that space first, and crowds the hatred out.

From learning comes health. A girl who finishes school marries later, raises healthier children, and breaks a cycle of poverty that no single grant could touch. From learning comes peace, because people who understand one another have less to fear and less to fight over. From learning comes respect — the kind we earn through service, not the kind we demand.

This is why The Rotary Foundation matters. Through our Annual Fund, Polio Plus and their matching programs, a gift does not merely add — it multiplies. Dollars become classrooms. Classrooms become futures. Futures become a world with less ignorance and more dignity.

And there is a reward the giver keeps: the deep satisfaction of knowing your resources became someone's possibility. We do not give because it is easy to ask. We give because the result is permanent.

Look again at these faces. They will not remember our names. They will live the difference we chose to make.

This Rotary year has extraordinary. Under DG Steve Ivory and PDG Bob Hagan, we collectively donated $1,134,737 in the 2025-26 Rotary year. We’ve answered the prayers of parents worldwide. We’ve increased goodwill and better friendships everywhere.

Join the fellowship of Foundation donors, there is still time. We have new Arch Klumph Society Members coming in ($250k in cumulative giving), many new Major Donors ($10,000 and more), and a host of donors doing what they can - all in all a wonderful group to join. Email me at lee@leehollingsworth.com for more information.

Posted by Lee Hollingsworth
June 26, 2026

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