The Scope of Rotary Volunteering
Rotary volunteers spend 47 million hours doing good in the world
The Scope and Scale of Rotary Volunteering
A study released in December 2019 by the Johns Hopkins Centre, Baltimore, USA
found that Rotary give an estimated annual contribution of 47 million volunteer hours,
equivalent almost to 27,000 full-time paid workers,
and saving US$850 million in service costs, each year
50% of volunteer hours are contributed by Rotary members age 56 years and over
and women accounted for 26% of volunteer hours
Latin America volunteers give the most at 6.4 hours/volunteer/month,
Middle East 6.2 hours, Europe 4.7 hours and USA and Canada 3.7 hours
Half of all volunteer hours are devoted to health, education and social assistance
and 20% to Culture, Community and Economic Development, and the Environment
The full report is available here
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Our energetic International team create and deliver projects that have lasting benefit for communities in Africa, and are exploring new opportunities in India
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