Welcome to the Rotary Club of Washington, DC

100k Grant Awarded. The Rotary Club of Washington, DC today announced that a special Centennial Community Service Grant of $100,000 has been made to the Multicultural Career Intern Program (MCIP).
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Our Club meets every Wednesday, promptly, 12:30pm – 1:30pm at the University Club of Washington D.C. Our meetings are hybrid and available via zoom. To request an invitation to join our weekly meetings, click the button below to send us an email. Be sure to regularly visit our Club Calendar for updates.
Every Wednesday at 12:30 PM

If you are interested in learning more about our events, click the link below to our Club Calendar.  Each and every month, we host and attend numerous insightful, energetic and service-oriented events.  Come and see what we’re all about…roll up your sleeves and help us – help others.

One of the Club’s most popular ways of serving our local community is through Grate Patrol DC.  To learn more about how you can volunteer to help us feed the homeless on the evenings of every 3rd Tuesday and 3rd Friday.  Click the button below to sign up today!

Vision Statement

A world of peace, justice, equity, opportunity, and human well-being within a thriving and sustainable environment.

Mission Statement

To transform lives in the nation’s capital and throughout the world through service, friendship, networking, and fun.

Our latest Instagram Postings

Happy Hispanic Heritage Month! This year’s theme is “Pioneers of Change: Shaping the Future Together” Celebrate with us!

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Our August 14th guest speaker was Joseph “Joe” Richardson who presented on the topic, “Lunch Out of Landfills.” A Rotarian from the Southern Frederick Rotary Club (Maryland, US), Joe has created a complete Lunch out of Landfills Toolkit that Rotarians can use to launch a program to empower schools to divert organics from landfills.  Food waste currently causes an estimated 124 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions in the US every year. 
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Through Lunch out of Landfills, your club can foster students’ environmental awareness and leadership.  You may also be able to save schools money.  Joe led a pilot test of Lunch out of Landfills in one Frederick County elementary school last semester. Fifth graders documented an 85% reduction in the volume of waste sent to the landfill. 
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This also slashed the emissions caused by transporting garbage to the landfill over 60 miles away from the school.  Frederick County Superintendent Dr. Theresa Alban, also a Rotarian, was so impressed that she allocated $10,000 to help expand the project to a total of 14 schools this year.
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Participating schools recruit students as mentors to each other, and set up sorting stations in the cafeteria where students learn to separate what’s left on their trays among five options: a share table for food that’s untouched or still wrapped, a bucket for liquids, a bucket for organics that can be composted, a bin for recyclables and a bin for trash.
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Our Rotary Club is fortunate to have so many members with wonderful contacts such that we are able to attract a wide variety of newsworthy, sought-after speakers! The diversity of our speakers reflects the diverse interests of our members.
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Today, we welcome Her Excellency Justice Esme Jynet Chombo, the Ambassador of the Republic of Malawi to the United States.  Prior to her appointment, Esme Chombo served for 18 years as a Judge of the High Court of Malawi.
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Her adjudication experience spars over 28 years as she first joined the Malawi Judiciary as Chief Resident Magistrate from 1986 to 1995, supervising all magistrates and overseeing management of all lower courts in the Northern Region of Malawi.
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Before progressing to the High Court, she worked as Company Secretary for Press Corporation Limited and Press Agriculture Limited between 1995 and 2002.
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Esme Chombo holds a Master’s in Women’s Law and Human Rights from the University of Zimbabwe, a Master’s in Strategic Management from the University of Derby, UK, and a Bachelor of Law – (LLB) (Hons) from University of Malawi.
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Our Rotary Club is fortunate to have so many members with wonderful contacts such that we are able to attract a wide variety of newsworthy, sought-after speakers! The diversity of our speakers reflects the diverse interests of our members.
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Our August 7th guest speaker, Dr. Daman S. Walia, presented on the topic, “Carbon Farming for Fast Track to Net Zero While Increasing Food Supply and Improving Soil Fertility.”
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Founder of ARCTECH Inc. in 1988, Dr. Walia is responsible for the organizational, management, and technical direction of its pioneering biotechnology approach of environmentally safer ways of using mineable and deep unmineable coal resources.  Dr. Walia and his team now, through interdisciplinary scientific discovery and entrepreneurial acumen, is offering technological solutions and products from coal for producing economical cleaner fuels, and products for agriculture and environmental cleanup, while moving the coal up the value chain, monetizing the stranded coals. 
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These approaches offer the potential of resulting in zero waste and a zero to negative carbon footprint from the use of vast resources of coal available throughout the world for meeting the growing human needs for cleaner energy, safer foods, cleaner water and environment while protecting the planet and its other inhabitants, a “Balanced Sustainability” vision for new frontiers of commercial opportunities.
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Dr. Walia, while young at the age of 10 or so, was indoctrinated into the Rotary “Service Before Self” by his grandfather, Mr. Bakshih Singh Ahluwalia Sikand, the President of the Rotary Club in Nabha, India in 1950, when he was assigned to serve tea to the club members at meetings held at his home.
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Our Rotary Club is fortunate to have so many members with wonderful contacts such that we are able to attract a wide variety of newsworthy, sought-after speakers! The diversity of our speakers reflects the diverse interests of our members.
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#DCRotaryClub #hybridmeeting
#clubmeeting #zoommeeting #newsworthy #guestspeaker #RotaryInternational #RI #RotaryDistrict7620 #TheMagicofRotary
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Our latest YouTube Postings

Rawad Abou Zaki | Building the World's First Flying House | September 11, 2024

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Her Excellency Justice Esme Jynet Chombo | Ambassador of Malawi to the US | September 4, 2024

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