Thank you for taking the time to visit the Rotary Club of Belize's website. The Rotary Club of Belize is made up of a group of Belize City businesspeople who volunteer their time and vocations to the benefit of the community.
The Rotary Club of Belize has played a significant role in many areas of the community. Some of our past and present projects include:
Construction of Belize's only school for the handicapped, the Stella Maris School
Establishment of the Gift of Life program which provides surgery for children born with congenital heart disease
Reconstruction of the Emergency Room at the Old Belize City Hospital which included operating and emergency rooms
Raising more than $150,000 for the Hurricane Keith relief efforts
Donation of a school bus to the Belmopan Comprehensive School
Donation of a van to the Mercy Clinic
Establishment of the Belize Emergency Response Team which is responsible for emergency ambulance service for the country of Belize
Donation of two airplanes used for air ambulance service by BERT
Donation of a 4-wheel drive ambulance to the Belize Emergency Response Team which allows BERT to reach the rural villages
Donation of a fire engine to the National Fire Service
Donation of school furniture to several outlying schools
The Kolbe Foundation, formed in 2002 by a group of Rotarians distressed by the inhumane conditions at Belize's Central Prison, took over the prison's management. Significant improvement in conditions and a strong focus on inmate rehabilitation have made the prison a model for the region
Construction of the Rotary Learning Center at the Kolbe Foundation to support the prison's rehabilitation program
Production of two movies featuring an all Belizean cast to provide HIV/AIDS awareness and education. “Choices” and “Risking it All” will soon be followed by another film focusing on workplace awareness of HIV/AIDS.
Completion of the Dorothy Menzies Childcare Center Activity House
Delivery of more than 700 wheelchairs to adults and children in need countrywide
Provision of quarterly Endoscopic Clinics to those who need this type of medical service
Most recently, the establishment of a Crime Stoppers Program for the country of Belize now allows the witnesses of a crime to provide information to the police anonymously
Many other projects, large and small, which have benefited the Belizean community
We invite you to explore
our website and hope you will find it useful and interesting.
The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster:
First - The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;
Second - High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying of each Rotarian's occupation as an opportunity to serve society;
Third - The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business, and community life;
Fourth - The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional persons united in the ideal of service.
The Four-Way Test Of the things we think, say or do —
1. Is it the Truth ?
2. Is it Fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build Goodwill and Better Friendships?
4. Will it be Beneficial to all concerned?
