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…
Freshwater Bay Rotarian Nishi Galhenage recently took funds from our club with her to Sri Lanka, her country of origin, to assist a refuge for young abused girls, some of whom are pregnant and others who have already given birth. Nishi provided us with an excellent presentation about the women’s shelters in Kandy, however,…
The Women’s Development Centre is a non government organisation in Kandy, Sri Lanka, which among other things runs a Centre for Crisis Intervention – a shelter for female victims of violence to provide protection, care, and rehabilitation of women and girl survivors of gender based violence. The Crisis Intervention Centre is…
Dr Sujit, founder of the Institute for Indian Mother and Child (IIMC), gave us a fascinating look at his background, his work with Mother Theresa, and her encouragement for him to go out and provide his own help to the community. It was incredible to trace his journey, from starting out…