In 2018, St John, which provides ambulance services throughout New Zealand, was planning to build a new state-of-the-art ambulance station in Cromwell to serve the Central Otago region. The service uses both paid and volunteer ambulance officers. St John had obtained most of the necessary funding, but there was a...
Students Raise 1000 Native Plants
More than 1000 native trees are thriving at a plant nursery within Greymouth High School grounds, ready to be distributed to schools throughout the Grey District – one for every student in both primary and high school – through the Rotary Club of Greymouth’s Trees for Māwhera project. The project...
Project Starfish
Project Starfish is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Dunedin Central. The project was established by member David Black 17 years ago to support those fighting child trafficking and sex slavery in Cambodia and Thailand. “Slavery is bad enough. It gets worse when you add ‘child’, but put ‘sex’...
Growing peace, remembrance and community out of disaster
The Rotary Peace, Remembrance, Community and Forest Park was born out of a major disaster – the 2011 earthquakes, which devasted large tracts of land and displaced large parts of the Christchurch population. This area is known as the Dallington Loop and has the Avon River running alongside it. The...
Hadlow to Harbour Fun Run/Walk (H2H)
Hadlow to Harbour Fun Run/Walk (H2H) is a project of the Rotary Club of Timaru North. The annual non-profit fun run, supporting charities in South Canterbury, has been held for the past 50 years. The 10 km course begins at Hadlow, just beyond the western edge of Timaru, and winds...
Bins 4 Blokes
The first anniversary of the launch of the Bins4Blokes campaign is this month, coinciding with World Continence Week, June 21-26. hen a patient opened up about the challenges of living with incontinence, men’s health physiotherapist Dr Jo Milios knew something had to be done. Having had the opportunity to work...