PDG Bob Aitken AMRI End Polio Now Coordinator, Zone 8, 2020-21Rotary Club of Lower Blue Mountains, NSW World Polio Day is an opportunity for Rotary clubs and members to promote the significance of the Global Polio Eradication Campaign totheir communities. If world leaders could broker peace along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border,...
Reclaiming India’s leprosy-free status
The Rotary clubs of Hills-Kellyville, NSW, and Allahabad Elite, India, have partnered with The Leprosy Mission Hospital, Naini, Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India, to fund a mobile medical clinic for early detection and treatment of leprosy for patients in rural areas of Uttar Pradesh. In 2005, India declared that it had...
Building capacity in Nepal
Having successfully completed a school building project in Timor Leste several years ago, Ian Toohill, of the Rotary Club of Eltham, Vic, was looking for a new international venture. As the club’s international director, Ian approached friend Graeme Kent OAM, CEO of NGO Aussie Action Abroad (AAA). He had been...
$60k donation from heart of PNG
When footage of last summer’s devastating bushfires reached the people of Lae in Papua New Guinea, the community rallied together to support their Aussie neighbours. By Jordan FennellPacific Beat / ABC News When Andy Thorp heard his Rotary club in the seaside town of Merimbula, NSW, was being sent a...
Time for a chat
After months of #isolife, Rotaract Australia is getting on the front foot, actively seeking to engage with Rotaractors and Rotarians across the country through its new podcast. Chats by Rotaract Australia aims to fill in the gap left by dozens of cancelled in-person networking opportunities caused by COVID-19 and connect...
100,000 FORaMEALS delivered locally
As an initiative of the Rotary Club of Canterbury, Vic, the FORaMEAL project was initially designed to help those across the Asia Pacific region, an area prone to many natural disasters annually. The idea was to create simple meal packs that could be stored on location and distributed immediately after...