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The store will be open for all Rotarians and friends to visit and exclaim at the treasure trove which is available for clubs to use for their humanitarian projects. Saturday 10 August @ 10am.
Congratulations to Learning for Life student Emmanouela! The Smith Family is thrilled to share that Emmanouela is heading to the Paris Olympics as the youngest member of the Australian Gymnastics Olympic team! 🌟
We are delighted that the 30th Governor of Victoria, Her Excellency Professor the Honourable Margaret Gardner AC, has accepted Honorary Membership of the Rotary Club of Melbourne.
Key players in Victoria’s construction industry are making a difference to the lives of vulnerable young people by raising funds and completing the building and renovation of the first Australian safe home in Melbourne’s south-east that was officially opened by the Mayor, City of Stonnington, Cr Joe Gianfriddo and Lighthouse’s CEO and key stakeholders on Wednesday 10 July 24.
Rotary Melbourne has partnered with Monash University's BioEYES program supporting students with science and STEM.
BioEYES Australia is an award-winning, innovative, hands-on approach to teaching primary and secondary students about science. Over the course of a week, students nurture the development of zebrafish embryos, observing the transparent eggs change from a single-celled zygote to a free swimming larvae.
July is Rotary's Maternal and Child Health Month. Rotary Melbourne is proud of our projects and achievements, including child vaccinations across the Pacific, training of midwives and doctors in Timor Leste, and working to prevent family violence with Rotary SAFE Families and Gender and Disaster Australia.
Congratulations to Reg Smith who received this year's David Wittner Mentoring Award for his outstanding work in Rotary Melbourne in many areas including mentoring.
On Monday 17 June 24, our Make A House a Home project (MAHAH) delivered 10 sets (20 tea-chest boxes) of new homewares to Launch Housing’s front line offices in Dandenong and Southbank.
Melbourne Rotarians, we need you to think about your networks and encourage nominations for the Sir John Reid award. You must know some volunteer who hasn't been acknowledged despite lots of great efforts.
Rotary Melbourne and GADAus are delighted to provide Rotarians the opportunity to participate in Lessons in Disaster training. We warmly invite Rotarians and their families, friends and partners to submit an EOI in our Lessons in Disaster Training. Once we have your details, we will contact you to discuss potential dates to bring the training to your community.
At our club’s historic 5000th Club Meeting on 30th August, at our Thomas Baker Oration with Past Prime Minister John Howard, Rotary Melbourne launched our 5000 Acts of Kindness project. How are we tracking?
After five days of fellowship, excitement, and cultural exchange, the Rotary International Convention in Singapore ended with a look forward.
Rotary International’s fourth Programs of Scale grant will support members' work with Indian farmers who have been affected by climate change. The program, Partners for Water Access and Better Harvests in India, will aim to increase groundwater tables, extend cultivation areas, and raise the incomes of about 60,000 farmers by 25% to 30%.
The inaugural Artificial Intelligence Summit was held jointly by Rotary Melbourne and the Royal Society of Victoria at the Society's beautiful 19th century building in Latrobe Street, featuring global thought leaders. Read more about this successful event, see photos and watch the summit here.
To better treat snakebite victims in Papua New Guinea, we have purchased our first new ventillator as part of our club's new Snakebite Project.
When a hospital system in Colorado, USA declared an emergency on youth mental health, Rotary members stepped up.
The first of our "From the Archives" series: When club member Barry White brought along his brother Neville to a Rotary Melbourne meeting in 2003, who knew what would inspire a multi-year, multi-million dollar commitment to build a community centre and school, train teachers, and give support to the remote indigenous homeland community of Donydji in North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Learn about some of the latest Rotary projects around the world from Mexico to the Netherlands, from Albania to the USA.
We are proud of the impact we are making with Afri-Aus Care Inc to provide youth mentoring to help their migrant community. Founder Selba Gondoza Luka and Simbarashe Chigwedere share their stories.
Our interactive water trailer of the Rotary Club of Melbourne as part of Rotary’s EndTrachoma by 2020 project. We partnered with Monash University, GHD and Telstra to deliver this Rotary Melbourne Centenary project, one of many different ways Clubs are working together to solve the problem of trachoma in indigenous Australia.
Rotary Melbourne members, we need you to think about your networks and encourage nominations for the Sir John Reid award. You must know some volunteer who hasn't been acknowledged despite lots of great efforts.
Some images from the Rotary Melbourne On To Conference 2024 which personified Friendship, Fun, Food and Fact Finding in Victoria! Photo: Wheelers Bridge.
The Rotary SAFE Families Inclusive Communities Initiative is focused on providing prevention of abuse information via printed translated Guides and films, to our many CALD (culturally diverse Australian communities). It now includes materials for Melbourne's Greek community.
Rotary Melbourne's Amanda Wendt (Past District Governor of District 9800) talks about The Four-Way Test at the International Assembly in Orlando, Florida, USA. She explains how the test, created by Herbert Taylor in 1932, should be used not to judge others but to guide a leader’s own performance and help them become more visionary.
At the Rotary Melbourne meeting on 27 March 24 we witnessed the presentation of a Paul Harris Fellow Award to Bill Pickett.
