Rotary SAFE Families has had its Guide for Prevention of Abuse in Australia translated into five languages to inform our non-English speaking communities on the prevention of family abuse. Rotary SAFE Families has continued to work hard with its commitment to engage Rotarians and the Australian public to become responsible...
Cancer Centre for Western NSW
By Nicole ShanksPublic Relations Director, Rotary Club of Dubbo West The Rotary Club of Dubbo West became involved with the Western Cancer Centre in 2015, when doctors Florian Honeyball and Colin McClintock came to their meeting as guest speakers to discuss the need for a positron emission tomography (PET-CT) scanner...
Santa Paws
By the Rotary Club of Dubbo For the past two years, the Rotary Club of Dubbo has hosted Santa photos with a difference. Drawing on what had been an unusual and often unsettling time for people, the club came up with Santa Paws – photos of pets with Santa. With...
She Is Not Your Rehab – Creating violence free communities
Rotary clubs throughout Christchurch, NZ, have been working with She Is Not Your Rehab founders, Mataio and Sarah Brown, to help spread the global anti-violence movement they birthed from a barbershop. By Jack CampbellRDU Intern Mataio Brown is the face behind ‘She Is Not Your Rehab’, a powerful personal account...
National Cartoon Gallery
The National Cartoon Gallery is Australia’s only dedicated cartoon gallery, exhibiting the largest private collection of contemporary cartoons in the Southern Hemisphere. It is organised by the Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour City. The original gallery is housed in an underground WWII bunker that has been converted into a funky...
District Governor Partner’s Project
Heather Mayne chose Youth Insearch as her DG partner’s project. Youth Insearch is one of Australia’s most successful youth intervention programs, having helped more than 32,000 young people rebuild their lives since 1985. It is a peer-to-peer program led by youth, with the support of adults and mental health professionals....