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By Lucy BladenThe Canberra Times Vincent Toto has a smile that could brighten up any room. But the toddler from the Solomon Islands hasn’t had an easy start to life. He was born with a gap between his stomach and oesophagus, which meant no food was able to get through. Vincent had a gastrostomy tube […]
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 […]
By Dave KingRotary Great Britain and Ireland When incoming Rotary International President, Holger Knaack, addressed the International Assembly in San Diego, California, earlier this year, few would have realised how prophetic those words would become three months later. On May 25, 46-year-old black American, George Floyd, was killed 2400 kilometres away in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during […]
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many Rotary clubs have found it difficult to undertake events to raise funds to support their local communities… and The Rotary Foundation. The Rotary Club of Heidelberg, Vic, has initiated a long-term project that will generate ongoing funding for The Rotary Foundation on behalf of the many Rotary clubs across Australia. […]
The Rotary Club of Springvale City, Vic, recently took part in a remarkable project that is changing the lives of children in a remote province of Cambodia by providing hygiene and sanitation solutions for the SCCFA Pailin School. A $5000 district grant was matched by $5000 from the club, with additional funding made up by […]
By Tony ThomasRotary Central Melbourne, Vic Victoria’s first Rotary Peace Scholar, Tania Miletic, has kept up her peacebuilding theme ever since District 9800 sent her to two years’ MA studies at the International Christian University (ICU) Rotary Peace Centre in Tokyo, Japan, in 2002. She is now Assistant Director working to help establish an Australian […]
By PDG Bob Aitken AMRI End Polio Now Coordinator, Zone 8 With World Polio Day behind us, Rotary clubs turn their attention to the entire range of Rotary Foundation programs in November. However, it is still important to recognise the vital importance of ongoing financial support for the Global Polio Eradication Initiative. Thank you to […]
In 2016, following a devastating 7.8 earthquake the previous year, the Rotary Club of Westhaven, NZ, began working with The Himalayan Leaky Foundation of Nepal (HLF) on a number of projects. Following a visit to the Thamdanda community in the Kavre District of Eastern Nepal, where he observed how the devastation from the earthquake was […]
Rotary presence in the Pacific region was recently bolstered by the return of Rotary to the small island nation of Kiribati. The newly chartered Rotary Club of Tarawa, Kiribati, has hit the ground running by partnering with the Rotary Club of Richfield, US, and the Rotary Club of Otahuhu, NZ, to score a whopping $100,000 […]
The Supurunda Water Supply Project in PNG has been a benchmark project for Rotary. In 2018, eight villages covering five culturally diverse groups agreed to put aside past enmities to ensure they could enjoy the mutual benefits of a safe, clean water supply. The resultant water system is now a common and enduring thread that, […]
Rotary clubs in Australia and New Zealand have contributed to the largest-ever Rotary Foundation Grant to fund vital healthcare equipment on the world’s largest purpose-built NGO hospital ship, operated by Mercy Ships.The Global Mercy launches in 2021 and will double the NGO’s healthcare impact throughout West Africa by providing six surgical specialities, as well as […]
Our key international project to celebrate the 2021 centenary of Rotary in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, Rotary Give Every Child A Future, is now underway. Working in partnership with UNICEF, it is introducing three vaccines into nine Pacific Island countries. Raising funds to complete this project is a priority. Diseases such as pneumonia […]