More than $440,000 raised for emergency shelter by Rotary Club Champions over the last 3 years. ShelterBox will host a special virtual ceremony at 7pm AEDT Tuesday 5th October where over 70 Rotary Clubs across Australia will be recognised with a ShelterBox Champion Award. Rotary Clubs around Australia are invited…
At our meeting on July 28th, one of our members, nurse Jill O’Callaghan, spoke of the incredible humanitarian work of Dr. Sujit Brahmochary who set up the Indian Institute for Mother and Child in Kolkata and surrounding areas. Dr Brahmochary works with the poorest of the poor in an incredible…
Past Rotary International Director Dr Ken Collins has been heavily involved with Rotary’s polio eradication effort since the 1980s. This short presentation by Dr Collins, available on Facebook, gives an overview of the effects of polio, and why it is important for Rotary to see the polio eradication effort through…
It was lovely to receive an update today from Rotarian Bill Monroe, who visited the Happy Dental Clinic in Cambodia to see new dental equipment provided through a global grant with our club. The Happy Dental Clinic provides free dental care to poor Cambodian children. Fellow Rotarian Michael Wright and I visited…
The much needed clinic for Val Orr-Smith’s work with burns victims in the Phillipines is underway and she is over the moon to know that the Goodeve Foundation through Honorary Member Tony Munday, has donated A$10,000 plus a member of her Church in Queensland has recently donated a further $10,000.…
We have received a Rotary Foundation District Grant for $3,000 to purchase items for the Ma Sevana residential care facility for teen mothers and babies in Sri Lanka. The girls residing at Ma Sevana, who are as young as 12 years of age, are victims of sexual abuse and have…
The following article about Past Rotary International Director Ken Collins has just been published in the August 2019 edition of the Rotary Down Under magazine.
Our member Lahiru Mudunkotuwa visited his home country of Sri Lanka on 6-12th May on a Rotary Foundation District Grant to conduct a feasibility study to ascertain whether a Vocational Training Team of people trained in first aid and rescue in disasters would benefit the country. His presentation, as can…
After a number of years of organisation, a desperately needed bus for the orphans at Sunshine House in Cambodia has finally become a reality.
Our deepest sympathies go out to the family and friends of the 50 people murdered in Christchurch NZ this week, and to the Islamic and Kiwi communities who have been rocked by this terrible event. Many thanks to Nishi and Lahiru for organising our tokens of sympathy and support to…
