About us
What is Rotary?
ROTARY is an organization of business and professional leaders united worldwide, who provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
ROTARY is the world’s first service club. The first Rotary club was founded in Chicago, Illinois, USA on 23 February 1905
ROTARIANS meet weekly for fellowship and interesting and informative programs dealing with topics of local and global importance. Membership is by invitation and reflects a wide cross-section of community.
ROTARIANS plan and carry out a remarkable variety of humanitarian. educational, and cultural exchange programs that touch people’s lives in their local communities and our world community.
ROTARY is The Rotary Foundation which each year provided some US$60 million for international scholarships, cultural exchanges and humanitarian projects large and small that improve the quality of life for millions of people.
ROTARY is PolioPlus; Rotary’s commitment to work with national and international health organizations on the goal of polio eradication by the year 2005, Rotary’s 100th anniversary. More than one half billion children in developing nations have been immunized against polio through PolioPlus grants
ROTARY IS SERVICE ABOVE SELF
Helping each other can make world better
The Rotary Club of Westlands-Nairobi is cognizant of the challenge to join hands and work hard to achieve our goals. We focus on the key elements of Rotary to implement, community focused educational, humanitarian and vocational service projects.
For years, Rotary’s commitment to Service Above Self has been channeled through the Avenues of Service, which form the foundation of club our club activities