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The West Harbour Recreation Trail was a five-year community undertaking completed in 2018 by the Rotary Club of Dunedin, with assistance from the Rotary Club of Dunedin North. Supported by TaskForce Green, with volunteer labour provided by Rotarians, their families and friends, the beautification has included spreading tonnes of woodchips and planting approximately 2,000 native […]
District 9980 enthusiastically took up the challenge to grow pumpkins for polio – a fun way to raise awareness and funds for Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign. Led by the world’s youngest district governor, Nick Wood, pumpkin seedlings were distributed around the district and 55 growers signed up. The ‘Atlantic Giant’ variety was the pumpkin […]
In 2018, St John, which provides ambulance services throughout New Zealand, was planning to build a new state-of-the-art ambulance station in Cromwell to serve the Central Otago region. The service uses both paid and volunteer ambulance officers. St John had obtained most of the necessary funding, but there was a $243,000 shortfall in costs. When […]
More than 1000 native trees are thriving at a plant nursery within Greymouth High School grounds, ready to be distributed to schools throughout the Grey District – one for every student in both primary and high school – through the Rotary Club of Greymouth’s Trees for Māwhera project. The project is driven by students of […]
Project Starfish is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Dunedin Central. The project was established by member David Black 17 years ago to support those fighting child trafficking and sex slavery in Cambodia and Thailand. “Slavery is bad enough. It gets worse when you add ‘child’, but put ‘sex’ in the middle of it, […]
The Rotary Peace, Remembrance, Community and Forest Park was born out of a major disaster – the 2011 earthquakes, which devasted large tracts of land and displaced large parts of the Christchurch population. This area is known as the Dallington Loop and has the Avon River running alongside it. The City Council designated this area […]
Hadlow to Harbour Fun Run/Walk (H2H) is a project of the Rotary Club of Timaru North. The annual non-profit fun run, supporting charities in South Canterbury, has been held for the past 50 years. The 10 km course begins at Hadlow, just beyond the western edge of Timaru, and winds its way through the city […]
The first anniversary of the launch of the Bins4Blokes campaign is this month, coinciding with World Continence Week, June 21-26. hen a patient opened up about the challenges of living with incontinence, men’s health physiotherapist Dr Jo Milios knew something had to be done. Having had the opportunity to work with thousands of men undergoing […]
Hosted by 10 New Zealand Rotary clubs, the Kids Foundation and one lucky Lions club, Circus Quirkus NZ is a non-animal circus spectacular – a blend of great world-class circus acts, including acrobats, clowns and contortionists, whimsical juggling and more. Tickets are sponsored by local businesses, with the complimentary tickets then distributed to charities supporting […]
Based on Kaurna land on South Australia’s Adelaide Plains, the Adelaide City Rotaract Club (ACRC) is the first within Rotary to have developed a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), endorsed by not-for-profit organisation Reconciliation Australia. By Katey HallidayACRC RAP chairperson and member of Rotary International’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce ince 2006, RAPs have provided an […]
A walking path through the Orokonui Ecosanctuary is another project of the Rotary Club of Dunedin. Since the construction of the path, the club has had ongoing involvement with the sanctuary. Orokonui Ecosanctuary is an outstanding example of a partnership involving input from volunteers and experts, with financial resources coming from many sources. It is […]
Early bird tickets are now available for all Rotaractors and Rotarians in Australia, New Zealand and across the Pacific to attend the Zone 8 Better Together Conference in Canberra, ACT, from October 28-30. The conference is set to be the first in-person zone event since the COVID-19 pandemic and is shaping up to be a […]