The Women & Girls Emergency Centre (WAGEC) is an emergency centre with a central support office based in Redfern, Sydney. Its focus is to create safer futures for women and children by ending gender-based violence in a generation. When people first come to WAGEC, the staff talk to them about...
Paying it forward via the National Youth Science Forum
One year ago, Tasmanian senior secondary student Aisha Bissett had little knowledge of what Rotary did. Now, she is one of the organisation’s inspiring young advocates. By Amy Fallon Responding to a social media alert, Hobart College student Aisha Bissett discovered Rotary via the prestigious National Youth Science Forum (NYSF),...
Ukraine Crisis Appeal
By Guy GlennyProject Manager RAWCS Ukraine Crisis AppealRotary Club of Sydney Cove It is now 20 months since President Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Having established the RAWCS Ukraine Crisis Appeal in 2015 to assist the Ukrainian community in Australia provide humanitarian aid to their homeland, the events of February...
Get connected at the Three Cs Café
Launched in May 2022, the Three Cs Café is a virtual mental wellbeing project by the Global Nurses and Midwives Rotary Club (GNMRC), encouraging colleagues to Check-in, Connect and Chat. By Wendy McIntosh and Maria Clemente Rotary Club of Global Nurses and Midwives Members of GNMRC recognised that isolation and...
Rotary SOLAS Charity Regatta
By Guy GlennyChair, Sydney Cove Regatta Committee Twenty-nine years ago, the Rotary Club of Sydney Cove conceived the concept of a charity regatta as its principal fundraiser. The club had been chartered in 1988, the bicentennial year, and first met on a Captain Cook Cruises vessel on magnificent Sydney Harbour....
Singleton’s centenary statue embodies Service Above Self
By Megan Lobb and David Gausden, Rotary Club of Singleton On Hunter, NSW When the construction of the Singleton Arts and Cultural Centre coincided with 100 years of Rotary in Australia, the Rotary Club of Singleton on Hunter, NSW, sought to commission an artist to commemorate this milestone and the...