In 2002, three shy yet hopeful young Tanzanians stepped through the doors of a small school built on hope, determination, and aching muscles. Today, that school is changing the lives of thousands of disadvantaged youths and the communities they call home. Enock Ephrahim was a young student at a government...
In Bloom
The Rotary Club of Wynyard Tulip Farm Project began approximately 30 years ago, when a local sheep farm was converted to a tulip farm. Charter member and farm owner Eric Roberts-Thomson offered the club the chance to man the gates and provide food for visitors to the farm, while the...
New Journey for Refugees in Uganda
By Amy Fallon As urban refugees in the capital of Uganda – the number one host country for those who have fled their homes in Africa – many Burundians and Congolese in Kampala face unique challenges. Now, a chicken farm project created through a Rotary Foundation district grant to the...
Interplast: Rotary’s best kept success storyInterplast
Over the past 40 years, Rotary and Interplast have made a significant contribution to improving the health and wellbeing of people in need in the Asia-Pacific region, and have set an inspiring example of what can be achieved through effective collaboration and partnership. In the early 1980s, Dr Gerald Duff,...
Youth Exchange 50th Anniversary
Fifty years ago, Kaye Green arrived back home in Tasmania, after a year in Osaka, Japan, as a Rotary exchange student. To celebrate the 50th anniversary of that extraordinary year, Kaye decided to create 50 bonsai artworks. “This ‘bonsai pilgrimage’ gave me the opportunity for a deep, reflective and meditative...
Homeless Photographic Exhibition at Federal Parliament
When photographer Phil England created the photographic portraits of homeless people that featured in a humanitarian exhibition of hope, he stated, “Don’t walk past them, look into their eyes and you will see through the stigma. Everyone has a story, including a homeless person.” On International Women’s Day this year,...