To celebrate our historic 5000th Club Meeting on 30th August 2023, Rotary Melbourne has launched its 5000 Acts of Kindness project.
At the heart of Rotary is the ideal of service and doing good for one another. We are people of action, and we know that each little act makes a difference. Join us in making that difference, by performing your own Act of Kindness, and encouraging others to do the same.
To kick off the project, on Wednesday we started with 300 Acts of Kindness for the Environment by planting 300 seedlings from the Victorian Indigenous Nursery Co-op here in Melbourne. Each guest was able to take home one of the following plants: Acacia implexa, Allocasuarina verticillata, Acacia acinacea, Acacia montana, Cassinia aculeata, Correa glabra, Kunzea leptospermoides.
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It could be a simple personal act such as offering your seat to someone in need, or donating clothes you no longer wear. Perhaps you offer to babysit for a friend or play a card game with a senior. You could join us in one of our volunteering projects helping pack meals, planting trees, or packing cutlery at an Emergency Relief Network. You may sponsor a young person's education or support us to immunise children in the South Pacific.
What better way to celebrate the 5000th meeting of Rotary Melbourne milestone than by doing good in the world!
Below are some of the Acts of Kindness already undertaken by our members and friends....
300 Seedlings by Rotary Melbourne
To launch our 5000 Acts of Kindness project, Rotary Melbourne donated 300 seedlings from the Victorian Indigenous Nursery Co-op for the 300 attendees at our 5000th Club Meeting to plant. It was a marvellous start to spread kindness to the environment. Each guest was able to take home one of the following plants: Acacia implexa, Allocasuarina verticillata, Acacia acinacea, Acacia montana, Cassinia aculeata, Correa glabra, Kunzea leptospermoides.
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Donated Kids Toys by Brad Langdon
Donated our kids no longer used toys suitable for ages 3-12 to our local parish for families in need
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Visited my all time favourite teacher by Cheryl Lacey
Last week I visited my all time favourite teacher - John Uren - who taught me in 4th and 5th grade, after having brunch with his amazing wife Marg who began teaching at just 19. John has Alzheimers. Despite the impact of this dreadful disease - his kindness, humility, keen interest in his surroundings and his integrity still shone through.I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to thank him for being an extraordinary influence on my life. It was John who taught me the true purpose of school education and what a teaching vocation as opposed to a teaching job looks and sounds like.There is a John Uren in all our lives. Gratitude is a gift we can all afford to give.
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Picking up seedlings by Jo Mavros
I helped the Victorian Indigenous Nursery Co-op to courier the 300 native seedlings for planting today.
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