The Rotary Club of Melbourne has long held a special focus on community health and supporting ageing. We identify issues in the community where we can can make a contribution and improve people's lives. Our members include specialists and experts in the health field, helping to identify, implement and manage live-changing projects.
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 has provided support to PALZ (Professionals with Alzheimer’s), a support organisation for those diagnosed with early stage dementia. It was established to ensure those from high operating work environments, can meet and interact within a socially and intellectually stimulating environment.
Our annual AFL Footy Tipping competition raises funds for our Health & Ageing projects.
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Rotary Melbourne in partnership with the Rotary Clubs of Albert Park, Docklands and Brighton North developed a product called “Footy Nuts” - a 30 gram pack of dry roasted Australian almonds - introduced to indigenous children in an effort to move their diet away from snack foods with low nutritional value.
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.
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.
The End Hepatitis Now project was launched in late 2019. A Rotary Melbourne partnership has been formed with Hepatitis Victoria.
