The goal of the foundation is to further understanding and friendly relationships among the world’s people by funding educational and charitable programs.  Eight programs serve to carry out this goal.

1.      Ambassadorial Scholarships

a.       Graduate

b.      Undergraduate

c.       Vocational

d.      Teacher of the Handicapped

e.       Journalism

f.        The Freedom from Hunger

2.      Matching grants

3.      Group Study Exchange

4.      Health, Hunger, and Humanities

5.      Rotary Grants for University Teachers serving in Developing Countries

6.      Polio-Plus

7.      Rotary Peace Program

Several of these programs send scholars and volunteers abroad to study, learn about other cultures, offer assistance, and promote goodwill within a host country.  Their success is measured, not only by materially improved lives, but also by the personal contacts that  the students and team members develop in the lands they visit  and by what they tell others when they return home.

Member: David Traut

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