Lord and Lady Somers Camps is a youth program supported by the Rotary Club of Healesville. The camps focus on bringing together youths from various backgrounds and challenging them to develop their personal and leadership skills as well as team building. Each camp runs for one week and caters for...
RNZWCS celebrates its 20th anniversary
December 11, 2023, marks 20 years since the establishment of Rotary New Zealand World Community Service (RNZWCS) Limited – whose development activities have included aid to nations across the Pacific, as well as India, Timor Leste, Cambodia, Vietnam, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Uganda, South Africa, Tanzania and Eswatini. Included in...
The Girl Project
Supported by the Rotary Club of Sandringham, The Girl Project is a unique program created by the Australian charitable organisation BeyondWater Global. Women in Kibera, Nairobi, have little or no access to sanitation products, which means that for one week out of four girls stay at home rather than go...
A rapid response to the Hunter Valley bus tragedy
By Brian CoffeyRAWCS Eastern Region Assistant Co-ordinator A fairytale wedding at the Wandin Valley Winery, Hunter Valley, over the long weekend in June was a special occasion for two young high school sweethearts, and their friends from the Warrandyte Cricket Club, Singleton Roosters AFL Club and the mining industry. Alex...
Ping Pong-A-Thon
Ping Pong-A-Thon is bringing communities together and uniting them under one cause: bringing freedom to the world’s most vulnerable. Their weapon of choice? The Pong. The fundraising and advocacy movement is combating human trafficking and exploitation of young people through a series of table tennis events held every year. Since...
Young Rotarian on a mission to reduce suicide in Uganda
Moving to Australia from Uganda – some 11,000km away – to study was a dream come true for Stuart Raymond Kasule, now a member of the Rotary E-club of Brindabella, in NSW and ACT. But once here, the stress of paying the exorbitant international fees nearly forced him to take...