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…
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…
In January 2023, another team of 6 medical student volunteers from Perth travelled to India for a 3 week stint at the Institute for Indian Mother & Child (IIMC). They took over suitcases of medical supplies such as blood pressure cuffs and glucose monitors, plus women’s sanitary gift packs. On a daily basis,…
Our first guest speakers for 2023, at our meeting on January 18th, were Alex Armanios and Vaish Radhakrishnan. They spoke about our Rotary Australia World Community Service Project, the Institute for Indian Mother and Child (IIMC). This is an incredible project initiated and run by Dr. Sujit Brahmochary who worked with Mother Teresa.…
In December, UWA medical students volunteered at the Institute for Indian Mother & Child. They are pictured here with other volunteers at an induction meeting.
The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay passionately supports the End Polio Now effort, particularly with our late member PRID Ken Collins having first hand experience with this awful disease. DG Ineke Oliver recently presented President Fiona Tremlett with our club’s Certificate of Appreciation for support of End Polio Now in…
The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay continues to prioritise assisting with important work of the End Polio Now campaign. We recently published a video of one our (now deceased) members discussing the importance of eradicating polio and why we must see this job through to the end. It’s lovely to…
We are delighted to again be acknowledged with a Bronze ShelterBox Champion Award for the 2021/22 Rotary year.
With November designated as “Rotary Foundation month” we thought it would be appropriate to observe this with a presentation on Polio Plus by the doyen of this program, PRID Ken Collins, who was involved with the eradication of Polio from 1984 until his passing in August 2022.
On Saturday 15th October 2022, Greg Acciaioli, President Fiona Tremlett and Rajah Senathirajah manned the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay’s stall at the inaugural Rotary Australia World Community Service (RAWCS) Expo, showcasing many amazing projects created by Rotarians to assist those in need with tax deductible donations! We promoted the…