Welcome to The Pottstown Rotary Club! 

Rotary International is the world's first service club organization, with more than 1.2 million members in 33,000 clubs worldwide. Rotary club members are volunteers who work locally, regionally, and internationally to combat hunger, improve health and sanitation, provide education and job training, promote peace, and eradicate polio under the motto Service Above Self.

We're proud of the contributions that the Pottstown Rotary Club is making toward a better community here in Pottstown and a around the world.  Many of our members have travelled to places like Haiti, Thailand and India where people are in much need. 

Here in our community we hope you recognize our efforts to make this a better place to live.  The Riverfront Pavillion, Literacy focused training, the Talent Show for teenagers, Strike Out for Hunger, Big Ticket Night and of course the Rotary Duck Race are just some of the events where you see Rotarians making a difference. 

We welcome all who would like to join the effort and make our community a better place to live and work. 

Hosted by the Pottstown Rotary Club

REACHING A MILESTONE
More Work To Do

Past RI President
FRANK DEVLYN
Marks India’s Designation as
No Longer Endemic for Polio!! 

Rotarians and Guests will assemble Wednesday May 30^th at

 Brookside Country Club
Prospect and Adams Sts.
Pottstown, PA  19464

Fellowship begins at 5:30pm
Cocktails (Cash Bar)
Dinner served at 6:30
Program commences at 7:30

Cost:  $50 per person

Special Recognition that night for NEW or added Paul Harris Fellows!

We’re this close to ending Polio!

MEET and HEAR Frank Devlyn!

·         Advocate of “Create Awareness, Take Action”

·         Author of 5 best sellers – including “Frank Talk on our Rotary Foundation”, ”Frank Talk on Leadership”, and “Frank Talk on Public Speaking”  

Get the Registration Form from the "Downloads" Section of the website or click the link below.  Reserve your seat today!

http://www.clubrunner.ca/Data/7430/6568/HTML/161055//FrankDevlynRegistration.pdf

Rotarians have significant reasons to celebrate Rotary’s 107th anniversary on 23 February.

Major gains have been made in the fight to eradicate polio, Rotary’s top priority. In January, India reached a historic milestone by marking a full year without recording a new case of polio. The country has been an epicenter of the crippling childhood disease.

Worldwide, fewer than 650 polio cases were confirmed for 2011, less than half the 1,352 infections reported in 2010. Overall, the annual number of polio cases has plummeted by more than 99 percent since the initiative was launched in 1988, when polio infected about 350,000 children a year. More than 2 billion children have been immunized in 122 countries, preventing 5 million cases of paralysis and 250,000 deaths.

Also in January, Rotary leaders announced that Rotary clubs raised more than US$200 million in response to a $355 million challenge grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In recognition of Rotary’s commitment, the Gates Foundation contributed an additional $50 million. All of the resulting $605 million will be spent in support of immunization activities in polio-affected countries.  

“We’ll celebrate this milestone, but it doesn’t mean that we’ll stop raising money or spreading the word about polio eradication,” Rotary Foundation Trustee John F. Germ told Rotary leaders at the International Assembly in San Diego, California, USA. “We can’t stop until our entire world is certified as polio-free.”