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Service Above Self was adopted as an official Rotary motto at the 1950 RI Convention.
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The phrase Service Above Self dates back to the 1911 convention in Portland, Oregon, USA. Paul Harris asked Ben Collins, president of the Rotary Club of Minneapolis, Minnesota, to address the convention after Collins told him that the Minneapolis club had adopted Service, Not Self, as its guiding principle.
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In 2005, Korean districts established a Matching Grant project to plant trees and shrubs in Mongolia as a windbreak against sandstorms that sweep off the Gobi every spring. Since the project's inception, more than a quarter million trees have been planted.
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The Gobi covers more than half a million square miles in central Asia, including portions of China and Mongolia. It is about 1,000 miles long and ranges from 300 to 600 miles wide.
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There are about 1,400 Rotary clubs in Korea.
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Korean and Mongolian Rotary clubs have cooperated on a number of projects that have benefited their communities. More than 125 Mongolian children have received heart surgery in Korea because of a collaboration between Korean districts and the Rotary Club of Tuul, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.
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