When you donate to The Rotary Foundation’s Annual Fund, your contribution disappears overseas, right? Wrong! In fact, it’s invested for three years (earning excellent returns) and then becomes available for Rotarians to fund high-impact projects. The good news is that Rotarians 'Down Under' are particularly ingenious when it comes to...
Black Summer Bushfires
The 2019-20 Australian bushfire season saw an astonishing 186,000 square kilometres of bushland burned, with more than 5900 buildings (including 2779 homes) destroyed and at least 34 people killed. This national catastrophe became known as ‘Black Summer’. One area badly affected was the MidCoast Council Area in NSW. In November...
Delivering on Rotary’s promise
By Jessie Harman. Rotary International Director 2021-23 Some of you will know that my path in Rotary has been a ‘membership’ path. As a Rotary Co-ordinator, and more recently as Chair of the Rotary International Membership Committee, I want to acknowledge how very important The Rotary Foundation is to our...
Moving earth at Grafton Bridges Park
The Rotary Clubs of Grafton and Grafton Midday, NSW, have been hard at work helping to furnish the new parklands between the Grafton bridges. The clubs combined to purchase and arrange the installation of park furniture at the parklands created between the old and new Grafton bridges on the northern...
Sydney Rotary launches Youth Encouragement Scholarship
The Rotary Club of Sydney, NSW, in partnership with PCYC NSW, initiated the perpetual Youth Encouragement Scholarship (YES) as part of Rotary’s centenary celebrations in 2021. A committee was formed in October to develop and formulate the criteria. There are four categories in both urban and rural areas: Arts, Music,...
Shelterbags for the homeless: Order date extended
In the October edition of Rotary Down Under our cover story featured the fabulous Shelterbags, which areproviding portable protection for those sleeping rough. At that time orders needed to be placed with the Rotary Club of Terrigal, NSW, by October 30, 2021 for delivery by March 2022. However, Sheltersuit’s production...