Now that the changeover season is behind us, the Zone 8 Regionalisation team is back in action. Club visits are occurring to explain the need to embrace change, the pilot concept itself, and how it will proceed if approved. Club support is required before the pilot can proceed and it...
Magnifying Microscopes for Schools
Magnifying Microscopes for Schools is a project of the Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay. The project is the result of a wish by WA Chief Scientist Lyn Beazley for every primary school in the state to have a set of magnifying microscopes. The Rotary Club of Freshwater Bay, the Science...
A colourful display of Rotary in action
In 2020, the Rotary Club of Browns Bay, Auckland, NZ, launched its Mural Project following a proposal by member Murray Allison in conjunction with Long Bay College’s art department. A design competition sponsored by the club tasked students with producing a mural of a local scene, and four submissions were...
Darwin Sunrise embracing reconciliation
In the lead up to National Reconciliation Week at the end of May, the Rotary Club of Darwin Sunrise (RCDS), NT, announced its commitment to develop a Reconciliation Action Plan (RAP) throughout 2022 to acknowledge and respond to the impact of our colonial history. The club has been endorsed by...
District support for Foodbank
The spread of COVID through Western Australia’s communities severely affected the number of regular and corporate volunteers across the state’s five regional Foodbank branches and the Perth Centre for Hunger Relief. Foodbank is WA’s leading hunger relief charity, and each month provides food to more than 55,000 disadvantaged Western Australians....
Restoring the mangroves of Western Port
The Western Port Seagrass Partnership, led by Rotarian Dick Cox, is working hard to restore the ‘forests of the sea’ for generations to come. By Jack Campbell Rotary International Immediate Past President Shekhar Mehta has taken on mangrove restoration as an international environmental project, with 10 countries currently joining the...