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 Grace Maano, a Fellow of Australian College of Rural Remote Medicine, and Aisling Carroll, a registered midwife, trained a total of 70 maternity health providers...
Battling bowel cancer one test kit at a time
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? Would you like to help reduce needless suffering within your local community? Rotary Bowelscan Qld is a project of District 9620, designed to promote bowel...
Land mine detectors for Ukraine
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 has seven areas of focus to create a better world, including promoting peace, saving mothers and children, growing local economies, and protecting the environment. The...
Helping hands across the Pacific
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 her career helping solve science problems. But in recent years, her focus has shifted from scientific research to something equally important – humanitarian work. After...
Bringing Rotary to our young people
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 Community Award program was launched 29 years ago, when Rotary Club of Mitchell River, Vic, and Bairnsdale 754 Primary School school principal David Hawkey had...
A dental clinic on wheels in Samoa
A trip to Savaii in 2018 has led to better dental services for this remote Samoan island. During a trip to Samoa in 2018 to provide dental and audiological services, Philip Newall and his wife Cristy, of the Rotary Club of Carlingford, NSW, visited the more remote but larger island...