Category: International Service
Brazil Microscopes Donated

On August 22nd, the Magnifying Microscopes we sent to Brazil were donated to two public schools. Students of Ladislau Schicorski and Cecília Meireles schools were delighted with the new learning instrument. The Municipal Secretary of Education Anirleia de Paula thanked the Rotary Club of Goioerê for choosing public schools for the…
Uganda School Fencing
Microscopes in Brazil
Singapore Dumpling Festival

22nd June was the Dumpling Festival in Singapore. Our Freshwater Bay Rotarian in Singapore, Sheila Cheng, again volunteered at the Anglican Care Centre Simei, running another hands-on workshop, this time on wrapping glutinous rice into dumplings. Sheila showed a short video so that they had a visual understanding of the…
Divine Mercy School Fencing
Divine Mercy School Fencing Project

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…
Turkiye/Syria Earthquake

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…
IIMC January Volunteer Trip

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,…
Meeting 18th Jan: IIMC Volunteers

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.…