819 results found
By Luke MichaelPro Bono News Equity and discrimination is now the number one concern for young Australians, according to new research from Mission Australia. The charity’s latest youth survey of more than 25,000 Australians aged 15 to 19 found this was the top national problem for young people, with 40.2 per cent of respondents identifying […]
Did you know that more than 15 million people have been made homeless by disaster and conflict in 2020 alone? The UN puts the total global figure at an incredible 104 million. Disaster relief charity and Rotary International project partner ShelterBox is doing something to change this. December 10 is World Human Rights Day, and […]
Project: Development of an innervated full-thickness human skin model by 3D printing University of Wollongong, NSWAwarded 2020Co-funded by the Rotary Club of West Wollongong, NSW An innovative PhD project funded by Australian Rotary Health could potentially help burn victims feel sensations on their skin once again, using a 3D printing technique with live human cells. […]
As part of their Lift the Lid on Mental Illness campaign initiatives, Australian Rotary Health (ARH) recently brought experts together to encourage parents and children to have difficult conversations for better futures. While there’s no quick solution to teen mental health issues and suicide, there are ways to be better prepared when difficult situations and […]
No matter where you are in Australia or New Zealand, block out the last weekend in March 2021 and bring your entire family to Canberra, ACT, to take part in the Centenary Walking Festival for Peace. You may even like to use the Rotary Aussie Peace Walk to garner patronage for your favourite Rotary program? […]
Every Monday at 5.30pm, members of the Rotary Club of Ahuriri, NZ, meet just across the road from Napier’s Ahuriri Estuary for their club meeting. But it is not just Rotarians who migrate for company and a meal: the Ahuriri Estuary is also home to some of the world’s most extraordinary birds. Bar-tailed godwits annually […]
Donations In Kind West Footscray, part of Rotary’s Donations In Kind Network, is a specialist operation that focuses on recycling goods, with 85 per cent of the goods processed being redeployed and 11 per cent sent to process recycling. The DIK operation saves nearly all of the goods received from being destroyed or going to […]
The RAWCS Australian Beirut Rebuilding Committee has received a recommended project from the Rotary Beirut Disaster Committee, with an assessment and sustainability report for providing medical equipment to the delivery and nursing departments of the neonatal and newborn unit at the Saint Georges Hospital University Medical Centre. This is a significant first project considering one […]
District 9940 in the south of New Zealand’s North Island jumped on board the Train Ride to End Polio Now campaign, with Rotarians from throughout the district riding on the Capital Connection, the Wairarapa Line, and the four Metlink lines in Wellington, visiting all 62 stations in the lower North Island on the way. The […]
For 2020, the Polio All Transit Districts 9910 and 9920 task force decided to up its game for World Polio Day, adding Auckland’s ferries to the previous rail itinerary. This year’s event proved bigger and bolder than ever, despite COVID-19. With Mayor of Auckland Phil Goff seeing the 50 riders off from Britomart Station, the […]
Queensland Rail was a sea of red on Friday, October 23, when 100 Rotary clubs across three Rotary districts in Southeast Queensland – Districts 9600, 9630 and 9640 – collaborated for the Train Ride to End Polio Now campaign. Kicking off in Gympie at 5.56am, hundreds of Rotarians and Rotaractors jumped on and off at […]
Seventeen-year-old Doncaster East local, Hannah Senior, and 17-year-old Caroline Springs local, Minseo Kim, are busy teens at The Mac.Robertson Girls’ High School in Victoria, but have found the time to create an inspiring program to bridge the gap between the young and young at heart through their ‘Letters Against ISO’ program. Created by Hannah and […]