The team at Nescafé Blend 43 has partnered with Rotary in Australia to launch its brand-new campaign, ‘Celebrate Australia’ by Nestlé Professional, designed to support the community spirit of six much loved Aussie towns. The six regional towns of Mallacoota, Vic, Broken Hill, NSW, Toowoomba, Qld, Busselton, WA, Willunga, SA, and Strahan, Tas, have been […]
When you donate to The Rotary Foundation’s Annual Fund, your contribution disappears overseas, right? Wrong! In fact, it’s invested for three years (earning excellent returns) and then becomes available for Rotarians to fund high-impact projects. The good news is that Rotarians ‘Down Under’ are particularly ingenious when it comes to devising and implementing high-impact projects. […]
The 2019-20 Australian bushfire season saw an astonishing 186,000 square kilometres of bushland burned, with more than 5900 buildings (including 2779 homes) destroyed and at least 34 people killed. This national catastrophe became known as ‘Black Summer’. One area badly affected was the MidCoast Council Area in NSW. In November 2019, the area was struck […]
By Jessie Harman. Rotary International Director 2021-23 Some of you will know that my path in Rotary has been a ‘membership’ path. As a Rotary Co-ordinator, and more recently as Chair of the Rotary International Membership Committee, I want to acknowledge how very important The Rotary Foundation is to our value proposition to members; to […]
The Rotary Clubs of Grafton and Grafton Midday, NSW, have been hard at work helping to furnish the new parklands between the Grafton bridges. The clubs combined to purchase and arrange the installation of park furniture at the parklands created between the old and new Grafton bridges on the northern bank of the Clarence River. […]
The Rotary Club of Sydney, NSW, in partnership with PCYC NSW, initiated the perpetual Youth Encouragement Scholarship (YES) as part of Rotary’s centenary celebrations in 2021. A committee was formed in October to develop and formulate the criteria. There are four categories in both urban and rural areas: Arts, Music, Sport and Education. The urban […]
In the October edition of Rotary Down Under our cover story featured the fabulous Shelterbags, which areproviding portable protection for those sleeping rough. At that time orders needed to be placed with the Rotary Club of Terrigal, NSW, by October 30, 2021 for delivery by March 2022. However, Sheltersuit’s production capacity has improved and they […]
Rotary clubs and districts embraced the concept of World Polio Month in October, with thousands of urgently needed dollars pouring into END POLIO NOW accounts throughout Australia and New Zealand. By PDG Bob Aitken AMRI End Polio Now Coordinator, Zone 8, 2018-23 Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator Peter Garnett convened a zoom meeting of Assistant Regional […]
Thanks to COVID and its long tail, restrictions in Auckland, NZ, have been prolonged and the planned End Polio Now Auckland Transit campaign was postponed until February 25, 2022. So, what could be done to celebrate World Polio Day on October 24? Ronald Chen, of the Rotary Club of Auckland Harbourside, had an answer. The […]
Two world wars and the Spanish Flu did not stop Rotary from its mission of service to humanity. Today, however, it faces a new host of challenges, foremost of which are another global pandemic and an endangered earth. COVID-19 continues to wreak havoc not just on life but on livelihood as millions of people lost […]
Afghan refugee Abbas Nazari was all geared up for his gig as keynote speaker at this year’s World Literacy Festival in Christchurch, NZ. When COVID restrictions forced the postponement of the event, the Rotary Club of Havelock North seized the opportunity and invited Abbas to be a guest speaker at the club. What ensued was […]
A tragic coincidence transformed the lives of four young girls in Zambia, and while the cause of the chance meeting is nothing short of heartbreaking, kindness and compassion nurtured hope out of horror. Matthew Raymond, co-founder of The Limapela Foundation, tells the story. As we headed to the Zambian mining town of Kitwe on a […]