The Federation Festival is an annual event organised by the Rotary Club of Corowa. The festival was first held in 1980 and celebrates Corowa’s place in history as the ‘birthplace of Federation’ (The Corowa Federation Conference of 1893 saw the beginning of the push for Federation by the people living in Australia’s six colonies). The […]
I Wish I’d Asked is a program of the Rotary Club of Shepparton South. This intergenerational initiative was co-founded by the club and Eva Gruen and Danny Finley, who are social entrepreneurs from La Trobe University Accelerator Program 2018. Eva and Danny wanted to create a program that would capture the stories of our older […]
The Rotary Peace Bell Albury Wodonga was a Rotary Club of Wodonga West initiative that brought a World Peace Bell to the Albury Wodonga region. The club wanted to increase peace awareness in the local community, in schools, businesses and homes. So, they set out to install a large Peace Bell that would become a focal […]
District 9790 Governor David McPherson asked his two children, Lily and Liam, to choose the organisation for his partner project during his term as governor. The inspiring project they selected was Wheelchairs for Kids. The Rotary Club of Scarborough in Western Australia founded this project in 1998. They started making wheelchairs from old bike frames […]
The sayNO2familyviolence initiative was initiated by the Rotary Club of Maryborough, Vic, in 2014. It started as a program to raise awareness of the problems associated with family violence in the Maryborough community. In 2017, the Rotary Clubs of Portland Bay and Portland made it a joint project in their local Glenelg shire. To top […]
The Samaritan House Geelong Independent Living Unit Project is supported by the Rotary Club of Kardinia. The project involved the installation of seven independent living units within the existing Samaritan House property. The objective of the project is to provide homeless men an opportunity to experience self-sufficiency by residing in their own independent accommodation for […]
The Surf Coast Trek is an annual joint fundraising event run by Give Where You Live and Kids+, with funds raised shared equally between the two organisations. The Rotary Club of Kardinia is the main source of volunteers for the event, providing around 40 members who assist with event planning, logistics and pre-event packing of […]
The Rotary Foundation’s Vocational Training Team (VTT) between Portugal’s Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel (Açores) (District 1960) and the Rotary Club of Ballarat South was designed to build forest fire management capacity and capability in Portugal. Across the entire rural landscape of Portugal there exists a community at risk from forest fires. This is mainly due […]
Rotary responds to the devastated communities of Türkiye and Syria. (Photos: Adem Altan/AFP) On February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southern Türkiye (formerly Turkey) near the Syrian border. This was followed almost nine hours later by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake situated approximately 95 kilometres to the southwest. More than 4,300 aftershocks have hit the […]
Cyclone Gabrielle caused unprecedented flooding and damage across parts of New Zealand’s North Island, leaving the country in a national state of emergency. PDG Stuart BattyExecutive Director, RNZWCS Limited (Photos: Stuff Ltd.) Severe Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle hit the uppermost region of New Zealand’s North Island on February 12 and tracked down the east coast, inflicting […]
The PNG Project and the PNG Projects Group (PNGPG) has evolved over several years of Rotary clubs working in Papua New Guinea. During the 1990s through to 2016, Rotary Club of Geelong member Anton Van Doornik coordinated several PNG projects, where he established PNG contacts, set up a logistic protocol for container shipping and organised […]
The dedication of Alison Ray and a group of Queensland Rotary clubs has seen Australian-Zambian charity Our Rainbow House go from strength to strength. In 2022, Zambian school Our Rainbow House celebrated a huge milestone – 10 years since the doors opened! The charity came about after founder Alison Ray had the pleasure of volunteering […]