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.
Our Rotary Melbourne Make House a Home project (MAHAH) has assisted hundreds of homeless people since it commenced over five years ago, 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.
We The Smith Family's Learning for Life program by raising funds the Around the Bay Bicycle Project. Each year, Rotarians and friends volunteer their time, generating much needed financial support to The Smith Family which provides financial, tutoring and mentoring services to students in need.
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.
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.
In June this year, Rotary International and the Rotary Foundation announced our Seventh Area of Focus - Supporting the Environment. Rotary’s Seven Areas of Focus now cover all seventeen United Nation Sustainable Development Goals.
Rotary Connects is a six-step process to help identify issues and create projects that involve members and deliver outcomes that benefit the community. Want to know more.....
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 identifies projects and opportunities to help young people, manage vocational related projects, facilitate mentoring programs, and recognise success.
The vision for Gathering of Kindness, a Rotary 100 Years Project, is to help the Hush Foundation to extend its reach, in Victoria and Nationally, through Rotary’s community connection.
Rotary Melbourne has signed a MOU with Launch Housing to support Launch Housing's mission to house the homeless.
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 homeland community of Donydji in North East Arnhem Land, Northern Territory.
Summary of the Ending Homelessness forum, by Marion Macleod, which was facilitated at the Multi District Conference 2019. This forum was outstanding and generated much discussion and interest.
