Serendipity and perhaps a little heavenly help shone down on Ballina resident Julie Alder in May, when members of the Rotary Clubs of Lismore and Ballina-on-Richmond, NSW, handed over a near-new Jayco Journey Outback caravan to her and her young family. A single mum of four, Julie and her children...
Mangroves Mehta
At last year’s United Nations’ Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Rotary International President Shekhar Mehta vowed to lead the way on a mangrove planting project to combat climate change. Now, 10 countries have agreed to support the project. By Doug Wills A pledge made at COP26 to restore vital...
She Is Not Your Rehab – Creating violence free communities
Rotary clubs throughout Christchurch, NZ, have been working with She Is Not Your Rehab founders, Mataio and Sarah Brown, to help spread the global anti-violence movement they birthed from a barbershop. By Jack CampbellRDU Intern Mataio Brown is the face behind ‘She Is Not Your Rehab’, a powerful personal account...
District Governor Partner’s Project
Heather Mayne chose Youth Insearch as her DG partner’s project. Youth Insearch is one of Australia’s most successful youth intervention programs, having helped more than 32,000 young people rebuild their lives since 1985. It is a peer-to-peer program led by youth, with the support of adults and mental health professionals....
Calperum and the environment
Government owned and Australian Landscape Trust managed Calperum and Taylorville stations have been adopted by D9510 as the centre for their ecology and environmental projects. This massive 337,000-hectare site in the Riverland of South Australia covers an extensive mallee forest dryland area as well as River Murray floodplains. This includes...
Rotary unites for Ukraine
At the time of writing, it was Day 30 of Ukraine’s heroic resistance to a full-scale Russian invasion. A total of 977 civilian deaths (as of March 24), including 81 children, have been verified by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) and an estimated...