Rotary has a structure that can be simply described as three levels: Club, District, and International. The MS Awareness Fellowship envisages the involvement of Rotary at all these levels. Rotary is structured in such a way that the things that interest all of these levels is basically the same, the difference is only one of scale.

When MS Awareness began as a District 9800 project we had a dream. We dreamt of Rotary acting as an independant facilitator between all the groups involved in MS care and research. We imagined the caregivers, the MS Societies, the charitable organisations, the pharmaceutical companies, the researchers and also the people who have MS getting together in one room and talking. This multi-disciplinary " Think-tank" would be a place where ideas could be created and shared about the problems of MS.

Now MS Awareness has become a Rotary Action Group. This gives us the oppourtunity to reach people in all those areas across the world where Rotary exists. Rotary is in 167 countries. There are MS Societies in 35 of these and the number is always growing. Our aim is for Rotarians to form links with the MS Societies in their country. The MS International Federation is working with our Rotarian Action Group to co-ordinate our activities world- wide. There are members of our Action Group in 13 countries. With the development of our e-mail forum we now have the means to allow this "Think-tank" to operate.

People in all areas of the World MS Community can talk to each other and share ideas. In this way, Rotary can help find a cure for MS.