The Northwest Regional Careers Expo is coordinated each year by the Rotary Club of Tamworth First Light. The expo helps the region’s students navigate the extensive career pathways available to them. With over 70 exhibitors, the expo is the largest in the region. Exhibitors range from local businesses, leading universities and colleges, registered training organisations, […]
It took two years for COVID-19 to reach American Samoa, but since breaching its shores earlier this year, it has sent the island nation into lockdown, with limited business territory-wide. Thousands of residents now face reduced work hours or have been laid off completely. Among those most affected are low-income homes and ‘non-essential’ workers, who […]
The Burindi Campdraft has been operating for 27 years and is the major fundraising project of the Rotary Club of Barraba; a small, dedicated club in the New England region of Northern New South Wales. It is the hometown of INXS founding band member and singer/songwriter Andrew Farriss, and country singer and harpsichord maker Bill […]
A collaboration between three Rotaract MDIOs across the globe is raising awareness of Rotary’s newest area of focus – protecting the environment. By Jack CampbellRDU Journalism Intern During the devastating 2021 wildfires that burned across the Mediterranean, three Rotaract Multi District Information Organisations (MDIOs) – Rotaract Oceania, Rotaract Mediterranean and Rotaract Europe – came together […]
You don’t have to be big to be successful. One of our smallest Rotary clubs in District 9510, the Rotary Club of Charles Sturt Grange, has a long running program where club members and volunteers, 16 in all, meet weekly to make high quality wooden toys. They achieve a massive total of 600 toys built […]
When a club wins a $356,000 grant from the Murray Darling Basin Authority to repair, replace and refurbish its Cliff Top Walk, it knows it has long-term credibility for doing good in its community. The Cliff Top Walk project was started in 1988 by the Rotary Club of Waikerie and was completed as a Waikerie […]
If you wanted to charter a Rotary club in some remote areas of the Australian Outback, you would need to induct kangaroos and emus to make up the numbers. The sparse Outback towns don’t have enough interested people to even form a viable satellite club unless they combined with others online. One solution to bring […]
Climbing 27 metres up rigging, above a heaving sea, to unfurl or reef a sail for the first time, with a team of other first-time sailors, is one of the key challenges of sailing a square-rigged ship. This is usually made worse by the inevitable sea sickness in the first days on the open ocean. […]
With 73 members, the multi-award-winning Adelaide University Rotaract Club (AURC) is the largest Rotaract club in Australia and Zone 8. Because of its location, membership retention is always an issue as graduating members need to be replaced each year. Despite this, the club has been capable of incredible efforts. It has a dedicated focus on […]
All grown up and now a proud husband and father, infant burns victim Safari Kimanzi is giving back to his home community of Kasaala by helping young girls gain a secondary education. By Jack CampbellRDU Journalism Intern There is a well-recognised ripple effect when young female students gain secondary education. They tend to have children […]
By Grant GodinoPresident of the Rotary LGBT+ FellowshipRotary Club of Traralgon, Vic As I have started to share my ideas and stories about LGBT+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and gender diverse, queer, and questioning) inclusion in Rotary, I have heard so many of our leaders say to me: “We’re a really decent club/district. We don’t […]
Give a Damn – Give a Can is an annual appeal and signature project of the Rotary Club of Traralgon Central, which aids the St Vincent de Paul Society. The appeal is organised by club members and has been running since 1992. Since its inception, club members have collected more than 240,000 cans of tinned […]