John Kirby from the Rotary Club of Mount Gambier Lakes is the treasurer of Klibur Domin, an aged and disability care facility in Timor Leste. Several District 9780 clubs, including Casterton and Hamilton, provide assistance to the facility. Since independence from Indonesia, Klibur Domin survived the terrible events that followed...
Forest Fire Management Vocational Training Team
The Rotary Foundation’s Vocational Training Team (VTT) between Portugal’s Ponta Delgada, S. Miguel (Açores) (District 1960) and the Rotary Club of Ballarat South was designed to build forest fire management capacity and capability in Portugal. Across the entire rural landscape of Portugal there exists a community at risk from forest...
Rotary mobilises for earthquake crisis
Rotary responds to the devastated communities of Türkiye and Syria. (Photos: Adem Altan/AFP) On February 6, a magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck southern Türkiye (formerly Turkey) near the Syrian border. This was followed almost nine hours later by a magnitude 7.5 earthquake situated approximately 95 kilometres to the southwest. More than...
Getting on after Gabrielle
Cyclone Gabrielle caused unprecedented flooding and damage across parts of New Zealand’s North Island, leaving the country in a national state of emergency. PDG Stuart BattyExecutive Director, RNZWCS Limited (Photos: Stuff Ltd.) Severe Tropical Cyclone Gabrielle hit the uppermost region of New Zealand’s North Island on February 12 and tracked...
Remembering Vietnam, Honouring our Veterans
January 11, 2023, marked the 50th anniversary of the then Governor-General Sir Paul Hasluck proclaiming an end to Australia’s involvement in the Vietnam War. To commemorate the withdrawal of our troops, the Rotary Club of Fairy Meadow, NSW, has planned a Community Walk for April 2, 2023. The walk aims...
The Rotary PNG Project
The PNG Project and the PNG Projects Group (PNGPG) has evolved over several years of Rotary clubs working in Papua New Guinea. During the 1990s through to 2016, Rotary Club of Geelong member Anton Van Doornik coordinated several PNG projects, where he established PNG contacts, set up a logistic protocol...