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ROTARY IN TAIWAN
                                          台灣扶輪十二地區分布地圖
                                          Map of Taiwan 12 Districts
            Rotary was introduced
            to Taiwan in 1931              D3481  D3482  D3521
            with the formation of   D3502
            the Rotary Club (RC)                          D3522
            Taihoku, sponsored by        D3501
            RC Tokyo. However, the
            first three clubs, namely   D3461           D3523
            RCs  Taihoku, Takao,
            and Keelung, ceased                                            The young students in Taichung City South District Xinyi Elementary   RC Taipei Taimei cleans and renovates a monument built by 12 Rotary   Led by President Jack, RC Chungli West and its partner, Both X   In the 2024-25 environmental protection year, D3521 launches
            operations in 1940 due   D3462               D3490       D3461  School are watching a video and gain their awareness of drug-abuse   D3481  clubs in Taipei 48 years ago. The landscape with a big Rotary wheel   D3501  Hair Taoyuan, sponsor a free haircut service for Xikou and Qehuy   D3521  the first of its six planned service activities with a street cleanup
                                                                                                                                    on a tree-shadowing sidewalk nearby the Songshan Airport in Taipei
                                                                           during an anti-drug project sponsored by RC Taichung Tung Hsing.
                                                                                                                                                                                             tribe members in Fuxing District, Taoyuan City. In addition, another
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     project in Taipei City's Dihua shopping district, focused on collecting
            to World War II.                                                                                                        City shows "WELCOME TO TAIPEI" and "PLEASE COME AGAIN" to   partner, Shinyi Biomedical Technology Co., Ltd., donates health   cigarette butts and litter.
                                                                                                                                    international travelers.                                 products to the participants from the tribes.
            In  1948,  RC  Taipei
            was established by       D3470             D3510
            community  leaders
            in Taipei and former
            Rotarians from mainland   2
            China's dissolved clubs
            during the civil war. In
            1960, Rotary International designated District 345 for the 19
            clubs in Hong Kong, Macau, and Taiwan. Since then, Rotary
            has grown steadily on the island, forming District 3460 in 1978,
            District 3470 in 1984, District 3480 in 1987, and District 3490 in
            1990. By 1998, all clubs were reorganized into seven districts,
            which increased to twelve districts by 2017.                   In an ecological conservation project in Puli Town, DG Dental,   To "Protect Environment, Preserve the Planet Earth", Rotary District   The Youth Exchange Committee of D3502 sponsors a 14-day "2024   RC Taipei Songren, Taiwan organizes a vocational service team
                                                                     D3462  President Lawyer of sponsor club RC Peitun, many other club   D3482  3482 conducts six projects of beaches /mountains garbage removing,   D3502  Cultural Culinary Camp" at Chung Yuan Christian University. The 13   D3522  traveling to the Philippines to train and enhance the local caregivers
            In the Rotary Year 2023-24, membership in Taiwan grew to       presidents and participants grow the nectar plants that will attract   wildlife restoration and rescue in 2024-25. Rotarians works with   foreign participants from 10 countries and the 13 participants from   in oral health education, treatment and care for the elderly. The
                                                                                                                                    community members to reduce carbon emission, showing the
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     project is supported by a Global Grant, RC Pasing South, Philippines
                                                                           Purple Crow Butterflies. The project of NT$120,000 this year invites
                                                                                                                                                                                             Taiwan build a lasting friendship and enhance their international
            35,117 Rotarians across 994 clubs, with a net gain of 30 clubs   more volunteers to join in this 21-year environment effort.  marvelous "Magic of Rotary.”                       understanding.                                          and many Rotary clubs, health institutes in both countries.
            and 1,365 members. That year, they contributed a total of US$
            21,299,872 to the Rotary Foundation, ranking Taiwan as the
            third-highest contributing country. Additionally, they supported
            Global Grants with $5.8M and District Grants with $1.8M
            donated from Taiwan. These efforts reflected the annual theme
            "Light Up Rotary" of 2014-15 RI President Gary C.K. Huang,
            the first Chinese RI President from Taiwan. Taiwan hosted the
            Rotary International Convention in Taipei in 1994 and will host
            another in 2026. They have also hosted Rotary Institutes in
            Taipei and Kaohsiung multiple times and will host another in
            Taipei in November 2024.
                                                                           The RCs Tainan West, Tainan An-Nan, Tainan Dream Age, and   Sponsored by the RC Wugu, D3490 and many other partners, a   RC Kaohsiung Da Ai sponsors a 12-week "Art Therapy Classes” of   Having been supporting various projects of Taiwan Spinocerebellar
                                                                     D3470  Tainan City Saccam held a service project at a community center   D3490  VTT team of doctors from Nepal visited Taiwan in October 2024   D3510  Kaohsiung city branch office of Taiwan Foundation for Rare Disorders   D3523  Ataxia Association, RC Nanya recently sponsored another project for
                                                                           in Yongkang, Tainan City to provide AI medical screening for the   for a month-long training program of special care dentistry. Each   to help local patients and their families relieve from stress and brave   the patients of the association with lunch gatherings, sightseeing,
                                                                           members in their communities to help them find and prevent from   team member is presented with a certificate from National Taiwan   out life's challenges through artistic creation.  and interactive program, as well as a donation of NT$50,000.
                                                                           the risks of stroke, early dementia and other diseases.  University Hospital and will be a seed bringing the new concepts and
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