Assisted by a $2,000 district grant, the Rotary Club of Devonport South East, Tas, is helping transform healthcare in remote communities in Uganda. A Community...
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By Steven Sundstrom, Regional Grants Officer Many Rotary Down Under readers will be familiar with Rotary: Give Every Child A Future (RGECAF), which aimed to...
By Steven Sundstrom, Regional Grants Officer To succeed at community assessments, projects must accomplish the community’s goals (and not just your club’s). Each year, Rotary...
The recent detection of variant poliovirus type-2 isolates in environmental samples and the confirmation of a 10-month-old child who has contracted polio in Gaza is...
Jessie Harman, Chair, Rotary Foundation Australia “It was The Rotary Foundation that made the difference – that proved to everyone, once and for all, that...
By David Anderson, Regional Rotary Foundation Coordinator As the charitable arm of Rotary International, The Rotary Foundation taps into a global network of Rotarians to...
By Melinda Fountain, Areas of Focus Manager, Programs & Member Engagement In a bold move to amplify its global impact, Rotary International has unveiled a...
Dennis Shore, Rotary Foundation Trustee November marks Rotary Foundation Month, a time to recognise and celebrate the powerful role our Foundation plays in advancing world...
A photographer documents progress and promise on the road to stopping polio for good. By Jean-Marc Giboux As a freelance photographer, I was looking for...
A son recalls his father’s great medical achievement – the development of the first ever polio vaccine – and the moment he experienced that breakthrough...
Attending the Rotary International Convention in Calgary is a way to support peace. When you walk the House of Friendship, meeting fellow members and learning...
Inspired by Australian Rotary International President Sir Clem Renouf, then District Governor John Sever convinced Rotary and the world to believe in polio eradication. The...
By Lucinda Diack A collaboration between the Rotary Club of Timaru, NZ, and the Rotary Club of Kathmandu, Nepal, has set a project in motion...
By Anne Matthews, D9560 Passport, Rotary Club, Qld In the lead up to World Polio Day on October 24, Anne Matthews looks back on how...
Supported by a Royce and Jean Abbey Vocational Scholarship, Reverend Dr Marthe Kondemo is empowering women in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s least resourced and...
Our regional and rural communities have been through some tough times over the past few years, with drought, bushfires and floods having a massive impact...
The Rotary Club of Caloundra, Qld, recently had Dr Sarah Casey as a guest speaker, who gave members a fascinating look into her work with...
A lifeline of clean water for Cambodia and Myanmar The Rotary Club of Wollongong, NSW, is assisting Australian charity The Water Gift in its mission...
PEOPLE OF ACTION.
By Dave KingRotary Great Britain & Ireland Mental health is a topic many of us struggle to front up to. While stigma around mental health...
In September 2023, Rotary Tasmania joined forces with Lifeline Tasmania to host the Out of the Shadows walk in Hobart ahead of World Suicide Prevention...
The Rotary Club of Knox saw the need for greater mental health support for young people in their local community, so they did something about...
Andy Ellis, of the Rotary Club of Port Nicholson, NZ, is responsible for running approximately 30 different government websites related to social harm and mental...
NFL Coach Vince Lombardi said it all when he told his football team – “once you learn to quit it becomes a habit”. Gold Coast...
It’s not often that the success of one Rotary project renders a previously successful Rotary project inoperable! In 1968, the Rotary Club of Christchurch, NZ,...
By Emeritus Professor Ron Rapee AM When I first started working in the field of children’s anxieties, some 25 years ago, many people said to...
By PDG Leanne Jaggs Zone 8 2024 Convenor After rediscovering our ‘Moments that Matter’ in 2023, we can now ‘Dream, Dare, Deliver’ in 2024. Join...
By Emeritus Professor Michael Sawyer OAM When planning your public relations campaigns, make it as easy as possible for people to get involved and say...
A simple idea of salvaging used stamps has raised $150,000 for various humanitarian projects, including EndTrachoma. In 1992, Carrol Farmer, president of the Rotary Club...
By Professor Anthony Jorm Back in the 1990s, my wife Betty Kitchener and I were walking our dog one evening and had a conversation about...
The World Press Photo Exhibition will return to Auckland from July 20 – August 11, 2024. Brought to New Zealand by the Rotary Club of...
GOOD READS.
Four years ago, the Rotary Club of Devonport spotted an opportunity to create an action-packed space for their mokopuna (young kids). They noticed the kids were creating a rough and hazardous bike track...
The Rotary Club of Highton, Vic, has proudly announced its 1,000th visitor on the highly acclaimed Fyansford Paper Mill Heritage Tour. Since November 6, 2022, the club has organised guided tours of the...
Literacy plays a central role in this year’s Rotary international theme, Create Hope in the World. Without reading one cannot actively participate in job seeking, getting a driver's licence, read labels on medicine...
An initiative of the Rotary Club of Kerikeri, the iconic annual Garden Safari celebrates its 36th anniversary this October. Each year, at the end of summer, club members begin their search for a...
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