From small things, big things can flourish and grow. In 2007, Wilma Best, of the Rotary Club of Healesville, Vic, was a special guest at a District Conference in Kampala, Uganda. Over 4000 delegates attended an evening celebration, and Wilma was invited to speak about an idea for a project...
Shining the solar light in PNG
We take for granted the capacity to turn on a light, the expectation that our babies will be delivered in a well-lit, clean room, that our children have the ability to study and work at night (or in the day) under decent lighting. But this is far from the truth...
Give a woman a fish – to smoke!
COVID-19 has struck hard for the many women in Uganda, who survive by market trading fruit, vegetables and fish. The markets have been closed to combat the pandemic, and the small incomes that sustained families have been lost. Ugandan Rotary Peace Fellow Emily Nabakooza is working hard to help provide...
Chickens for Change
The Rotary Club of Brisbane, Qld, has been supporting food and nutrition security in Papua New Guinea since 2018 through its partnership with the Kyeema Foundation, a Brisbane-based not-for-profit organisation implementing coral reef conservation and indigenous chicken keeping as alternative food and livelihood activities. So, why indigenous chickens? A good...
100 heart surgeries for 100 years of service
Rotary ‘Downunder’ isn’t the only one celebrating 100 years of doing good in 2021… Rotary in India will also commemorate its centenary, and the Rotary Clubs of Morley, WA, and Bangalore, India, have teamed up to mark the special occasion. The legacy international project 100 Heart Surgeries will see the...
Support for the people of Beirut
On August 4, 2020, a catastrophic blast took out the commercial port of Beirut, causing 191 deaths, 6500 injuries, US$10-15 billion in property damage, and leaving an estimated 300,000 people homeless. Prior to the explosion, the people of Lebanon were already facing an economic and humanitarian crisis, as well as...