Author: RDU Editorial

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, Türkiye. The project aims to empower women by encouraging them to participate in economic life and fill the gap of intermediate staff in the textile...

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, with an intriguing proposition. Andrew and three of his fellow students had set their sights on a community service project, a vital component of their...

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 starting a conversation about suicide prevention and mental health – and start a conversation it did! Presented by the Rotary Club of Huon Valley, in...

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 Pedy on Tuesday, June 18. First Nations adults are twice as likely as non-Indigenous Australians to have chronic kidney disease and almost four times as...

A joint project by two neighbouring Rotary clubs in New Zealand’s Bay of Plenty offers improved health outcomes for women with breast cancer and other forms of cancer. The two-year project by the Rotary Clubs of Kawerau and Whakatane came to conclusion in April with the commissioning of a SOZO...

On Saturday, June 1, Rotary Peninsula 2.0 held its club changeover evening. There were whispers the club was going to induct 15 new members on the night, so District 9820 Governor Linda Humphries approached President Gordon to see if he would like to attend. A Rotary Peninsula 2.0 changeover is...