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Regionalisation
October 15, 2024
Rotary Community Groups are planning for success!

Rotary Community Groups are uniting clubs to boost impact, grow membership and tackle local challenges.

Events
October 14, 2024
Garden DesignFest 2024

Garden DesignFest turns 20, showcasing stunning gardens and raising funds for Impact for Women.

Women
September 26, 2024
A Rotary warrior wahine: Strong women never give up

Dr Heidi Ward-McGrath defied the odds to become a top-ranked CrossFit athlete and inspiring Rotarian.

Food Security
September 25, 2024
Cooking for a Cause

Chef and Rotarian Terri Taylor leads OzHarvest’s zero-waste cooking to feed those in need on the Gold Coast.

Environment
September 24, 2024
Collaboration, community and connecting with the environment

Rotary clubs unite to replant 6,000 natives along the Maribyrnong River after devastating 2022 floods.

Uncategorized
September 23, 2024
Sanitation solutions in Sumba

By PDG John KevanRotary Club of Mandurah Districts, WA In East Sumba, where the financial capacity to support water and health requirements for villages in remote areas is severely limited, Fair Future Foundation has been successfully providing materials and training to enable villagers to build their water and sanitation facilities for more than 15 years. […]

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September 20, 2024
Queanbeyan delivers U-Turn the Wheel pilot program

Throughout May, the Rotary Club of Queanbeyan, NSW, held the 2024 pilot program of U-Turn the Wheel (UTTW) at three local high schools in Queanbeyan – The Anglican School at Googong, Karabar High School, and Queanbeyan High School. Overall, approximately 125 students took part in the one-day program. Feedback from students and staff was positive, […]

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September 19, 2024
Let it Rain! Catching water on Moso Island

The Tassiriki School Project saw the restoration of five school buildings, including upgrading the buildings’ guttering and fixtures, re-roofing a classroom, and the installation of an additional four 1,100 litre water tanks and downpipes. Vanuatu is a water scarce country and safe drinking water isn’t available for many school children. Water tanks installed on school […]

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September 18, 2024
Best-ever Wānaka Book Sale

This year’s Rotary Club of Wānaka, NZ, annual book sale, held at the Lake Wānaka Centre was a “huge success” according to organisers. Funds raised were up 40 per cent on 2023, with club spokesperson and organiser Geoff McLeay saying sales grossed $19,000. “The result was far beyond our expectations,” Geoff said. “Thanks to what […]

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September 17, 2024
Produce Partnerships

In early 2000, the Rotary Club of Belfast Kaiapoi, NZ, recognised that food poverty was becoming a significant issue for many in their community. So, the club set about developing a major project to seek out fresh food that could be obtained at minimum cost and distributed to the various foodbanks within Christchurch. Initially, through […]

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September 16, 2024
Rotary E-Club of District 9650 Supporting Marine Rescue

The Rotary E-Club of District 9650 has been selling Krispy Kreme doughnuts at the Port Macquarie monthly markets with great success. As a result, the club recently donated $2,000 to Port Macquarie Marine Rescue to help the rescue service purchase a new and larger vessel. This is just one of the many ways the e-club […]

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September 13, 2024
Food for Peace: How reducing waste can create a just and sustainable world

By Dr Elaine PratleyRotary Peace Fellow Positive Peace Activator, Founder of Peace Inc. and Peace Kitchen Despite 793 million undernourished people around the globe, one-third of all food produced for human consumption is wasted. Every year, Australian farmers discard millions of tonnes of edible fruit and vegetables deemed too oddly shaped or blemished for commercial […]

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