Rotary Club of Riga International

"Rotary Club of Riga International" was chartered August 22nd 1998. With almost a million inhabitants Riga is by far the biggest city in the Baltic region, a truely international city with a large community of foreigners from all over the world. Quite naturally there was a serious interest in this community to establish also an International Rotary Club with English as Club language. Since the Club had been chartered the number of nationalities among our members has grown significantly. Today RCRI has over 30 members, so we are not really small anymore and we are for sure multilingual. Many Rotarian visitors to Latvia choose RCRI as the meetings are in English and the meeting time on Friday fits nicely to a weekend trip. Our beautiful capital Riga can look back to more than 800 years of history which left a lot of multinational traces. Our town saw periods of wealth and beauty, but also dark and difficult times. But one attribute always fitted to Riga, since the days of the "Hanse" Riga has always been very international, a hub to the Baltic sea as well as to the big neighbour Russia in the East. Also Rotary as such has a long tradition in Latvia, going back to the early years of the 20th century. In our International Rotary Club we enjoy very much to have guests from all over the world and to host them in an atmosphere of openness and friendship.

A WORD OF GREETING