When West Australian Premier Mark McGowan recently announced his government’s roadmap to easing COVID-19 restrictions within the state, suitcases across the west were pulled out and collectively dusted off. Regional travel restrictions were lifted, allowing intra-state travel to recommence, and the government announced a multi-million-dollar survival and recovery package to help small businesses in the […]
While Australia has benefited from economic stimulus during the COVID-19 pandemic and a reopening of businesses after months in lockdown, Nepal is struggling with its third-world medical system, delayed financial assistance from their government, and the return of migrant workers from India and the Middle East. Now, fundraising efforts from Australian Rotary clubs are helping […]
Canteen Creek (Owairtilla) is one of the most remote communities in the Northern Territory. This dry community is located approximately eight hours’ drive northeast of Alice Springs and approximately three hours’ drive southeast of Tennant Creek. The Rotary Club of Box Hill Central (RCBHC), Vic, has been engaging with this community, as well as with […]
It’s very difficult to wash your hands regularly with soap and running fresh water if you don’t have a tap. Now, a Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) project, Hand Hygiene for Health (HHFH) and SPATAP Portable Tap, is tackling this problem in the Pacific. COVID-19 has impacted developed and underdeveloped nations across the globe. […]
Thanks to the generosity of The ToolShed customers, a 40-foot container overflowing with tools is on its way to the Solomon Islands. At the end of last year, The ToolShed Palmerston North, NZ, was approached by Leigh Ramsey from Nufuels, who purchased a few products, including a ToolShed welder. He informed the store manager, Garry […]
In April 2008, the United Nations established the Food Security Initiative and highlighted the global food crisis to introduce greater food and nutrition security globally, within the broad framework of ‘the right to food’. While in Australia we may view food security as a problem existing ‘elsewhere’, up to 31 per cent of remote Indigenous […]
The Yiyili Aboriginal Community School is a low socio-economic school between Fitzroy Crossing and Halls Creek in the Kimberley Region in the north of Western Australia. The Rotary Club of Glenferrie, Vic, was delighted to complete its first Indigenous project in this very remote part of Australia. Vocational training is an important part of the […]
Remote Indigenous people in Central Australia are up to 30 times more likely to suffer from kidney disease than other Australians. Patients are forced to leave their country and travel to Alice Springs or Darwin, NT, for treatment indefinitely. Communities are left without elder leadership, families are broken, and culture is weakened. Purple House is […]
Ngāti Kurī (Māori iwi from Northland) elders say, “Oranga taiao, oranga tangata – Humanity is sustained by the environment” and that we must “Whakarongo ki te reo o Paptuanuku – Listen to the voice of our Earth Mother.” Students of the Ngāti Kurī schools of Te Hapua and Ngataki are embracing this proverb by helping […]
Te Whakaora Tangata is an innovator of parent-focussed whānau (family) restoration programs in South Auckland and, now, thanks to the generous support of The Rotary Club of Onehunga One Tree Hill Charitable Trust, across New Zealand’s Far North. The trust works to restore families desperately in need of a better future – addressing the deep-rooted […]
Sir Clement William Bailey Renouf AM was born in Ingham, Qld, on April 19, He was one of six children who all spent two years at boarding school in Charters Towers, as there was no high school in Ingham. Sir Clem, who said after graduating from Year 9 “with a pass that was better than […]
During the one-hour event, the Governor-General and Mrs Hurley took part in the ‘Passing the Baton’ ceremony and the audience enjoyed musical performances by Josh Piterman, Nick Jones and Leo Sayer. To celebrate 100 years of Rotary in Australia and New Zealand, Rotary is reflecting and celebrating the past, but more importantly looking into the […]