School dropout in Uganda is alarmingly high, especially due to lack of lunch for school children and the inability of parents to provide scholastic materials and uniform despite free education provided by government. Nearly 1 in 20 school age children have never enrolled in school, and 60% of those who…
Our Rotary Club is featured in the “Rotary projects around the globe” of the March 2023 issue of the Rotary magazine.
To celebrate International Women’s Day on 8th March 2023, Rotary International streamed the video below featuring past winners of the Sylvia Whitlock Leadership award – including our own Charter President, Di Collins – and announced this year’s winner of the award: Chin Mei Lu of the Rotary Club of Taipei…
The speaker at last week’s meeting was our member Professor Greg Acciaioli, whose field is Anthropology and Sociology. Greg is involved with the new Colombo Plan, which aims to lift knowledge of the Indo Pacific in Australia by supporting Australian undergraduates to study and undertake internships in the region. Greg is…
On Friday 3rd March 2023, the Peace Pole at Quintilian School in Mt Claremont was inaugurated. Rotarians Wes Rigg and Stephanie Rainey-Smith, both members of our Youth Committee, attended on behalf of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay.
In collaboration with the Rotary Club Freshwater Bay, APSN Chaoyang School in Singapore along with their CEO Mr Stanley Tang, officially launched the Buddy Bench project on 23rd February 2023, on Rotary International’s 118th Anniversary. Affectionately named ‘’Let’s be friends’’ by the students, the Buddy Bench hopes to provide a…
At our weekly club meeting on 22nd February 2023, we were delighted to induct Dan Magee into the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, with the classification Urology Registrar.
At their meeting this week, the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay Board approved the International Service Committee’s decision to contribute $1,000 towards a ShelterBox for the Turkiye/Syria earthquake. If anyone would like to donate to ShelterBox Australia to provide emergency shelter for families affected by the earthquakes, you can do…
With no speaker planned for the evening of 15th February 2023, we decided to enjoy a social evening out at the Tee Box Cafe instead of our regular meeting.
On 25th January 2023, Freshwater Bay Rotarian Sheila Cheng conducted a three hour practical session on Mooncake Making during her visit to Perth. This year, the Mid Autumn Festival falls on 29th September but as Sheila will be Singapore then, she took the opportunity to do a hands on session…