Category: 2024

By Steven Sundstrom, Regional Grants Officer This project began in 2019, when the Rotary Club of Casablanca El-Fida, Morocco, and District 9510 submitted a vocational training team application to improve rain-fed agricultural productivity in Morocco. This was based on a community assessment conducted by Rotarian Barry Mudge during a visit...

Assisted by a $2,000 district grant, the Rotary Club of Devonport South East, Tas, is helping transform healthcare in remote communities in Uganda. A Community Health Day held at Namawanga Health Centre in Mbale, Uganda, has shown the remarkable impact of cross-continental collaboration on improving healthcare in remote communities. The...

By Steven Sundstrom, Regional Grants Officer Many Rotary Down Under readers will be familiar with Rotary: Give Every Child A Future (RGECAF), which aimed to immunise the most disadvantaged children in the South Pacific against rotavirus, pneumococcal disease and HPV, and strengthen the local health systems to create a sustainable...

By Steven Sundstrom, Regional Grants Officer To succeed at community assessments, projects must accomplish the community’s goals (and not just your club’s). Each year, Rotary members volunteer their time and expertise in service to the communities where they live, and to communities around the world. It would be an ambitious...

The recent detection of variant poliovirus type-2 isolates in environmental samples and the confirmation of a 10-month-old child who has contracted polio in Gaza is a stark reminder that as long as polio exists anywhere, it is a threat everywhere. The ongoing crisis in Gaza has contributed to reduced routine...

Jessie Harman, Chair, Rotary Foundation Australia “It was The Rotary Foundation that made the difference – that proved to everyone, once and for all, that Rotary really is a powerful vehicle for change.” My vision for The Rotary Foundation is woven deeply into my vision for Rotary in Australia –...