Meet your 2025-26 Rotary president, Mário César Martins de Camargo. After a day of interviews with the committee vetting candidates for 2025-26 Rotary International president,...
LATEST STORIES.
We hear it over and over from members: Everyone needs to experience the Rotary International Convention at least once. (And grab a discount while you’re...
By Vic GrosjeanRotary-UN Young Innovator Award Recipient New technologies are helping address increasing threats to the Great Barrier Reef – the world’s largest coral reef,...
In the lead-up to the 2025 Zone 8 Conference on the beautiful Gold Coast, Past District 9640 Governor Andy Rajapakse shares his top 10 tips...
By Amy Fallon President of the Kiribati Rotaract Youth Club, Miriam Moriati, is advocating for gender parity and climate stability in the Pacific. As a...
Supported by the Rotary Club of Christchurch, NZ, the School Biodiversity Education program is inspiring young minds through hands-on environmental education, fostering a deeper connection...
By Aviv PaltiFoundation Director,Rotary Passport Club of Melbourne, Vic The words of American author, advocate and activist Helen Keller – ‘Alone we can do so...
The Environmental Sustainability Rotary Action Group aims to empower members of the Rotary family worldwide to take actions to protect our environment for a sustainable...
By Etelka Lehoczky with additional reporting by Seoha Lee Women in Rotary get a professional boost, and it’s not all about networking. One day in...
The Rotary Club of Southeast Queensland Wildlife Rescue Inc. in District 9640 has been chartered for less than a year and what a roller coaster...
Nine ambitious Cambodian women have graduated with a Master’s Degree in Education, thanks to the support of the Rotary Club of Box Hill Burwood and...
By Anke TimmPhilanthropy SupervisorThe Rotary Foundation, South Pacific & Philippines Rotary members across the globe have mobilised to help the people of Vanuatu following the...
By Anne MatthewsD9560 Passport Rotary Club Throughout December 2024, the World’s Greatest Meal held a series of festive feasts across the globe, wrapping up US$61,997.79...
Two volunteers from the Rotary Club of Taree, NSW, visited the Philippines in August 2024 to provide training in obstetric emergencies. Over three days, Dr...
Rotary Bowelscan Qld has received a $50,000 grant to assist in the early detection of bowel cancer. Do you know a victim of bowel cancer?...
The Rotary Club of Murrumbidgee Canberra, ACT, is partnering with various Ukraine supporter groups to fund land mine detectors for civilians in Ukraine. Rotary International...
Newly elected ROMAC chair Glenys Parton’s journey from science to service. Glenys Parton, the technical director of industry systems for New Zealand Avocado, has spent...
The Rotary Junior Community Award brings the ideals of Rotary into the hearts and minds of many young people and their families. The Rotary Junior...
PEOPLE OF ACTION.
The Rotary Club of Inglewood in Taranaki, NZ, might only now be 12 members strong, but their involvement in the community of 3,500 belies their...
Rotary Fellowships are international groups whose members share a common passion. Being part of a fellowship is a fun way to make friends around the...
Kawempe, in Uganda’s Kampala district, has a population of 262,000. It is low lying and for much of the year is inundated with water. Many...
Led by Trees Australia Landcare Consultant Bruce Ivers and supported by the Rotary Club of Melville, the innovative project has recruited local children in one...
The Indigenous Health Scholarship program is a collaborative project between Australian Rotary Health, participating Rotary clubs, and the State and Commonwealth Governments. The yearly scholarships...
Head Book Worm Peita Byer has been involved in the ShelterBox Australia Book Club since its inception in 2020 and is amazed at the network...
Pamela Noal, of the Rotary Club of Lower Blue Mountains, was one of the early instigators of the LBM Opportunity Shop in Blaxland, NSW. Celebrating...
Members of the Rotary Club of Flemington Kensington, Vic, were well aware of the challenges facing residents of the social housing estate in the area,...
On April 25, ANZAC Day, then Rotary International President Gordon McInally and his wife Heather visited the Golden Needle Project training centre in Adiyaman Izmir,...
Early in the Rotary year, Andrew Mills, an enthusiastic young student from Drouin Secondary College pursuing his VCE, approached the Rotary Club of Drouin, Vic,...
Created in 2022 after the tragic loss of a young person from Tasmania’s Huon Valley to suicide, the Hilltop Hike had the simple aim of...
The first of the new dialysis clinics to open under the government’s Better Renal Services for First Nations Peoples initiative was officially opened in Coober...
GOOD READS.
Four years ago, the Rotary Club of Devonport spotted an opportunity to create an action-packed space for their mokopuna (young kids). They noticed the kids were creating a rough and hazardous bike track...
The Rotary Club of Highton, Vic, has proudly announced its 1,000th visitor on the highly acclaimed Fyansford Paper Mill Heritage Tour. Since November 6, 2022, the club has organised guided tours of the...
Literacy plays a central role in this year’s Rotary international theme, Create Hope in the World. Without reading one cannot actively participate in job seeking, getting a driver's licence, read labels on medicine...
An initiative of the Rotary Club of Kerikeri, the iconic annual Garden Safari celebrates its 36th anniversary this October. Each year, at the end of summer, club members begin their search for a...
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