When young people are exposed to domestic violence or abuse, their social wellbeing and mental health are impacted. Accompanying a mother or carer into a domestic violence shelter can have a ripple effect on children as they are moved to a new area, town or city away from friends and...
The Compassion Crew
With schools all but closed in an attempt to flatten the COVID-19 curve, the Interact Club of Jimboomba, Qld, saw an opportunity to assist in caring for the young children of essential workers who can’t be home to provide home schooling. The Hills International College students set about devising an...
One Good Street
RMIT University Health Transformation Lab Deputy Director and member of the Rotary Club of Flemington Kensington, Matiu Bush, founded One Good Street (OGS) after witnessing first-hand the need to coordinate acts of kindness in the community. The Melbourne-based charity, which has now expanded its scope to NSW, the ACT and...
A truck in time
A $10,000 donation to Kiwi Community Assistance by the Rotary Club of Wellington North, NZ, has facilitated the purchase of a refurbished chiller truck to help the local charity in its work with communities in need. Founded by Tracy Wellington and her husband Phil Davies, Kiwi Community Assistance is a...
Engaging members to serve during social distancing
COVID-19 has turned our world upside down and changed life as we know it for the foreseeable future. Social distancing has impacted our ability to meet, fundraise and conduct service projects in the ways we traditionally know and enjoy, yet the consequences of COVID-19 also mean that our communities need...
Help for communities hit by Harold
After pummelling Vanuatu as a category-five storm on April 6, Tropical Cyclone Harold levelled buildings and caused dangerous flooding across Fiji’s largest island of Viti Levu on Wednesday, April 8. All of Fiji’s major settlements, including the capital Suva, but particularly the west coast settlements of Lautoka and Nadi, were...