There are an estimated 476 million Indigenous people in the world, living across 90 countries. They make up less than five per cent of the world’s population, but account for 15 per cent of the poorest. They speak an overwhelming majority of the world’s estimated 7000 languages and represent 5000...
Ingenuity born out of lockdown
At the height of COVID-19 lockdown measures in New Zealand, necessity and ingenuity bred a solution to a crucial health challenge many countries were experiencing. A low-cost pandemic ventilator was developed by three neighbours – an engineer and two doctors – and is now in demand to help ease the...
SHEP goes global
Sexual Health Education by Pictures (SHEP) is a short, adaptable teaching program with a huge impact. Its unique feature is the clear, creative pictures that “illiterate can understand”, as writes Rebecca Ek, of the Girls Support Group, which teaches tailoring to 2000 young women in Uganda and recently took up...
Tasmania taking the lead in fight against plastic
In a Rotaract-led initiative, Tasmanian Rotary & Rotaract Against Plastic (TRRAP) has set itself the ambitious goal of being 100 per cent single-use plastic free by 2022. Australia’s island state of Tasmania is renowned for its clean, green image. To further support this iconic brand, Tasmania’s Rotary and Rotaract clubs...
Young at heart
Holger Knaack has a fresh vision for the Rotary of the future. With a little help from his friends, things should go swimmingly. Holger Knaack is vacuuming. The Rotary Club of Herzogtum Lauenburg-Mölln, Germany, has wrapped up its annual Christmas bazaar in the cloister of the 12th-century Ratzeburg Cathedral. Two...
Rotary Safe Families addressing DV and elder abuse
Recognising a family violence or elder abuse situation and knowing what role you can safely play to support victims and prevent domestic violence and elder abuse are the aims of Rotary Safe Families, a program of the Rotary Club of Melbourne, Vic, which recently launched two new videos to help...