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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 […]
Since The Rotary Foundation’s new grant system was adopted in 2013-14, Rotary International has supported six key Areas of Focus for Rotary projects (see page 12). Now, for the first time in history, a seventh Area of Focus has been unanimously approved by both The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees and the RI Board – […]
There are an estimated 476 million Indigenous people in the world, living across 90 countries. They make up less than five per cent of the world’s population, but account for 15 per cent of the poorest. They speak an overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7000 languages and represent 5000 different cultures. Indigenous peoples have […]
Special thanks to all district teams in Australia and New Zealand who allocated 20 per cent of district designated funds (DDF) in their original The Rotary Foundation plan for 2019-20 – or recognised the shortfall in polio giving and tipped DDF residue into End Polio Now fundraising at year’s end. The call for a maximum […]
District 9570 can be immensely proud of the response it has delivered to victims of the devastating bushfires and drought in Queensland’s Bundaberg region. PDG Rod Medew, of the Rotary Club of Bundaberg East, was successful in applying for two Rotary Foundation Disaster Grants to assist farmers in the region. Within days, The Rotary Foundation […]
The playground will be close to the site of the long-gone Glen’s Ferry, which crossed the Yarra River at this point and gave its name to the area now known as Glenferrie. The site also has considerable significance for the local Indigenous people. The consortium is partnering with the City of Boroondara in the construction […]