Our local community projects address visible and preventable issues in communities in and around the greater Melbourne area, including ending homelessness, keeping famlies safe and making a contribution to health and the needs of the elderly in our community.
Nationally, we strive for large, impactful projects addressing areas of greatest need in the Australian community, particularly Aboriginal people, refugees, and those experiencing socio economic disadvantage.
Over 100 corporate volunteers joined Lighthouse Foundation’s Care Packing Day, assembling essential packs for vulnerable babies, children and young people on RUOK Day. Rotary Melbourne proudly supported the event, with Philip Endersbee donating a generous supply of new socks and beanies and partners including the Sofitel Melbourne adding toiletries.
Our Community Welfare Committee created and implemented the 2025 Cynthia’s Gift Mentoring Awards through partner organisations. The Inaugural Cynthia’s Gift presentation 20th August 2025 was led by PP Kevin Sheehan,
Click Read More below for the first District 9800 Foundation Newsletter for the 2025-2026 year.by the District Foundation Chair and the Foundation Committee Don't forget to sponsor Rotary Melbourne member Robert Fisher who is participating in 'Walk with us 25' in support of the End Polio Now Campaign.
Peter Berg introduced Dr Ruwangi Fernando the Founder & Director of STEM Sisters a highly acclaimed Not-for Profit community whom Rotary Melbourne through the Welfare of the Young Committee is partnering with on an educational printed comic book project called The Future Me. This is an edited version of Ruwangi’s and Peter’s remarks.
Chris Wang and Robert are always keen to keep members up to date with progress, even though it’s a while since final contributions were made to help fully fund the project. Click read more below for the latest report from UNICEF, which really has too much content to pass on. The most interesting parts are the independent report by the RI Foundations’ cadre, who in May visited the vaccination program in action in Kiribati (page 6), and the vaccination summaries (pages 10-11).
Mary, Sana, Anthony and Deb attended the WEHI's 2025 Art of Science exhibition on 11 September 2025 on behalf of the Rotary Melbourne. Our relationship with WEHI involves our participation with Malaria research and the donation of funds for equipment in the laboratory.
Rotary Melbourne is backing RIMERN’s Spring Cleaning with RIMERN campaign to raise $5,000 by 30 Nov 2025.
RIMERN provides essential furniture and household goods to families starting over after crisis. Some items - like basic cleaning kits - must be purchased new to meet our quality standards.
A $50 gift sponsors a complete kit, but every dollar helps us deliver 10+ kits each week. Click read more below to change lives, one household at a time.
If you are interested in keeping up to date with all that’s been happening with volunteers, donations, welfare agencies & clients, and the many exciting things ahead at RIMERN please click on Read More for Issue 16: August/September 25. This issue advises that 'Neibours' TV show provided 2 truck loads of furniture, lamps and kitchenware.
RIMERN (Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network) is a multi club Rotary project operating Inner Melbourne, providing furniture, appliances & homewares to welfare agency clients who have experienced homelessness, domestic violence, incarceration, refugee displacement and other crises.
Volunteer Rotarian and friends take calls from donors, collect, clean and sort items into household lots.
Our Rotary Melbourne Make House a Home project (MAHAH) has assisted hundreds of homeless people since it commenced in 2017, with our volunteers purchasing, packing and delivering sets of homewares helping Launch Housing as they find new homes for the homeless. You can watch our video to see how it all works.
Following natural and other diasters, research has demonstrated an upsurge in domestic and family violence. Rotary Melbourne has partnered with Gender & Disaster Australia (GADAus) to provide training in disaster prone areas and to help foster safer, more resilient communities.
Welcome to our Rotary Melbourne 100 Year Initiative - Rotary SAFE Families. Become part of the solution in the prevention of family and elder abuse and locate support for anyone abused or in danger of abuse.
You can become an Ambassador for SAFE Families - Stopping Abuse in Families Everywhere.
Rotary Melbourne has worked with Afri Aus Care for a number of years to help African Australians in Melbourne's South East. See this latest ABC Melbourne report.
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.
Led by the Rotary Club of Melbourne, the EndTrachoma by 2020 project unites Rotary clubs across Australia, to work towards eliminating trachoma by preventing the spread of infection that causes this avoidable blindness.
To celebrate our historic 5000th Club Meeting on 30th August 2023, Rotary Melbourne 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.
For over 10 years, Rotary Melbourne have assisted collecting food from stallholders at markets across Melbourne, more recently at Prahran Market. The food, which would otherwise go to waste, is collected for Second Bite and then turned it nutritious meals for those in need, including those experiencing homelessness across Melbourne.
A group of environmentally conscious Rotary Melbourne members and partners gathered for a few hours at Norton's Park in Wantirna on a chilly Sunday morning to volunteer and celebrate National Tree Day.
Rotary Melbourne has a long history of supporting Australian Rotary Health, one of the largest independent funders of mental health research within Australia. ARH also assists a broad range of general health areas, provides scholarships for rural medical and nursing students, as well as Indigenous health students.
Rotary Melbourne works in conjunction with AfriAus Care to help the Black Rhinos team, helping young migrants from African backgrounds to integrate, engage and develop relationships, preventing crime through participation in sport. Watch this video to learn more.
The End Hepatitis Now project was launched in late 2019. A Rotary Melbourne partnership has been formed with Hepatitis Victoria.
Our annual AFL Footy Tipping competition raises funds for our Health & Ageing projects.
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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.
