Did you know that more than 15 million people have been made homeless by disaster and conflict in 2020 alone? The UN puts the total global figure at an incredible 104 million. Disaster relief charity and Rotary International project partner ShelterBox is doing something to change this. December 10 is...
PhD scholar spotlight Mitchell St Clair-Glover
Project: Development of an innervated full-thickness human skin model by 3D printing University of Wollongong, NSWAwarded 2020Co-funded by the Rotary Club of West Wollongong, NSW An innovative PhD project funded by Australian Rotary Health could potentially help burn victims feel sensations on their skin once again, using a 3D printing...
Lift the Lid on mental illness
https://youtu.be/xmSlP8wwr40 As part of their Lift the Lid on Mental Illness campaign initiatives, Australian Rotary Health (ARH) recently brought experts together to encourage parents and children to have difficult conversations for better futures. While there’s no quick solution to teen mental health issues and suicide, there are ways to be...
Come Say G’Day at the Rotary Peace Walk
No matter where you are in Australia or New Zealand, block out the last weekend in March 2021 and bring your entire family to Canberra, ACT, to take part in the Centenary Walking Festival for Peace. You may even like to use the Rotary Aussie Peace Walk to garner patronage...
Bird paradise inspires environmental committee
Every Monday at 5.30pm, members of the Rotary Club of Ahuriri, NZ, meet just across the road from Napier’s Ahuriri Estuary for their club meeting. But it is not just Rotarians who migrate for company and a meal: the Ahuriri Estuary is also home to some of the world’s most...
Reduce. Reuse. Repurpose.
Donations In Kind West Footscray, part of Rotary’s Donations In Kind Network, is a specialist operation that focuses on recycling goods, with 85 per cent of the goods processed being redeployed and 11 per cent sent to process recycling. The DIK operation saves nearly all of the goods received from...