New South Wales Rotarian Ken Hutt set out to paraglide from the top of Mount Everest, and while he didn’t make it, his message to end polio did. By Julius Dennis, ABC News Ken’s quest to become the oldest person to paraglide from the top of Mount Everest ended in...
Anonymous gift for flood victims
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...
Pumpkins for Polio
District 9980 enthusiastically took up the challenge to grow pumpkins for polio – a fun way to raise awareness and funds for Rotary’s End Polio Now campaign. Led by the world’s youngest district governor, Nick Wood, pumpkin seedlings were distributed around the district and 55 growers signed up. The ‘Atlantic...
Project Starfish
Project Starfish is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Dunedin Central. The project was established by member David Black 17 years ago to support those fighting child trafficking and sex slavery in Cambodia and Thailand. “Slavery is bad enough. It gets worse when you add ‘child’, but put ‘sex’...
Rotary on the road towards reconciliation
Based on Kaurna land on South Australia’s Adelaide Plains, the Adelaide City Rotaract Club (ACRC) is the first within Rotary to have developed a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP), endorsed by not-for-profit organisation Reconciliation Australia. By Katey HallidayACRC RAP chairperson and member of Rotary International’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Taskforce ince...
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...