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When footage of last summer’s devastating bushfires reached the people of Lae in Papua New Guinea, the community rallied together to support their Aussie neighbours. By Jordan FennellPacific Beat / ABC News When Andy Thorp heard his Rotary club in the seaside town of Merimbula, NSW, was being sent a donation from people in Papua […]
After months of #isolife, Rotaract Australia is getting on the front foot, actively seeking to engage with Rotaractors and Rotarians across the country through its new podcast. Chats by Rotaract Australia aims to fill in the gap left by dozens of cancelled in-person networking opportunities caused by COVID-19 and connect Rotaractors, Rotarians and clubs doing […]
As an initiative of the Rotary Club of Canterbury, Vic, the FORaMEAL project was initially designed to help those across the Asia Pacific region, an area prone to many natural disasters annually. The idea was to create simple meal packs that could be stored on location and distributed immediately after a disaster has occurred. The […]
From small things, big things can flourish and grow. In 2007, Wilma Best, of the Rotary Club of Healesville, Vic, was a special guest at a District Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Over 4000 delegates attended an evening celebration, and Wilma was invited to speak about an idea for a project to provide milk for needy […]
We take for granted the capacity to turn on a light, the expectation that our babies will be delivered in a well-lit, clean room, that our children have the ability to study and work at night (or in the day) under decent lighting. But this is far from the truth for our nearest neighbours in […]
COVID-19 has struck hard for the many women in Uganda, who survive by market trading fruit, vegetables and fish. The markets have been closed to combat the pandemic, and the small incomes that sustained families have been lost. Ugandan Rotary Peace Fellow Emily Nabakooza is working hard to help provide a small replacement income and […]
The Rotary Club of Brisbane, Qld, has been supporting food and nutrition security in Papua New Guinea since 2018 through its partnership with the Kyeema Foundation, a Brisbane-based not-for-profit organisation implementing coral reef conservation and indigenous chicken keeping as alternative food and livelihood activities. So, why indigenous chickens? A good question indeed! More than 80 […]
Rotary ‘Downunder’ isn’t the only one celebrating 100 years of doing good in 2021… Rotary in India will also commemorate its centenary, and the Rotary Clubs of Morley, WA, and Bangalore, India, have teamed up to mark the special occasion. The legacy international project 100 Heart Surgeries will see the RajaRajeswari Medical College and Hospital […]
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On August 4, 2020, a catastrophic blast took out the commercial port of Beirut, causing 191 deaths, 6500 injuries, US$10-15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. Prior to the explosion, the people of Lebanon were already facing an economic and humanitarian crisis, as well as dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic. […]
RI Director Jessie Harman honours a Rotary hero and urges all Rotarians to get behind The Sir Clem Renouf Polio Appeal. Part of being a Rotarian is aspiring to make the world a better place. One Rotarian who truly delivered on this promise was Sir Clem Renouf, who passed away on 11 June. Clem hailed […]
Things got a bit on the nose last month for four members of Hills Rotaract Club, NSW, who took part in the Sudsy Challenge from September 10-12.The challenge? To wear the same clothes for three consecutive days to raise awareness of homelessness and funds for Orange Sky, a charity organisation providing free mobile laundry and […]