Our life-changing scholarship program with Empowering Youth Cambodia (EYC) enables over 50 children annually from run-down shanty houses, in the urban poor slums of Phnom Penh to attend high school. These schools provide education, leadership, development and job opportunities for vulnerable boys and girls.
A revolutionary stroke treatment could be on the way! Thanks to Australian Rotary Health funding, ARH Scholar Jason Palazzolo and his Monash University team have developed ‘SCE5-scuPA,’ a clot-busting drug showing impressive results in safely dissolving brain clots. With over 100 Australians facing strokes daily, this groundbreaking research could save lives and improve recovery for thousands.
5 year old Elina and her mother Enneth from Vanuatu joined Peter Addison, Chair of International Programs,as we introduced Ninh Nguyen, Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) Southern Region Chair (Vic/Tas).
RYLA is an internationally run Rotary week-long residential program for 18 to 25 year olds, with a focus on encouraging and strengthening young people's leadership skills and personal development. Rotary Melbourne annually supports new young people to participate in this program, as we have since the 1960s.
Papua New Guinea has the highest per capita death rate from snakebite globally, 60% of cases involving children. Rotary Melbourne and the PNG Snakebite Partnership helps reduce snakebite fatalities through provision of ventillators, solar powered refrigeration for anti-venom, and training of healthcare workers.
Paul Guerra
CEO, Victorian Chamber of Commerce
Topic: Embracing Growth - Victoria's Path to Prosperity in 2024
Wednesday 14th of August 2024
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
No 35, Sofitel on Collins
Also Online via Zoom
Event
Rotary Melbourne's project partner, Gender and Disaster Australia (GADAus), is a finalist in this year's Third Sector Awards, in the category of Emerging NFP of the Year. Public voting is now open, so please click through and cast your vote for GADAus and show your support for this great Rotary Melbourne project!
CEO,
Team Global Express
Topic: The Challenges of Sustainability
Wednesday 24th of July 2024
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
RACV City Club
Event
2024 World Environment Day
Rotary Environment Award
12.30 for 12.50 – 2.00pm
Venue No35 Sofitel Melbourne also Online via Zoom
Event
Date From : Wed Jun 5, 2024 : 12:45 pm
Date To : Wed Jun 5, 2024 : 2:00 pm
Rotary Melbourne has a rich history of caring for and supporting indigenous communities across Australia from Melbourne to Arnhem Land, including health, education and community development.
Have you watched our Rotary Melbourne YouTube Channel lately? It features our People of Action, including volunteering projects. Our Speaker Series is updated regularly, showcasing our amazing weekly guest speakers. Plus major events including our 2021 Future of Peace Leadership Symposium and last year’s Rotary International Convention here in Melbourne. Be inspired and watch the channel here.
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.
Director, United Nations Information Centre
Topic 'Cultivating a Culture of Peace'
Wednesday 18th of September 2024
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
No 35, Sofitel on Collins
Also Online via Zoom
Event
Please don't forget to support the Smith Family Raffle for 2024
Win $2,000 cycling equipment voucher from My Ride Collingwood supporting the Smith Family's Learning for Life Program for families needing support to fund the education of their children. It will be drawn on Wednesday 30 October at noon in the Office.
The “Sewing Machines for East Timor” project encompasses collecting sewing machines and overlockers to be refurbished and shipped to the Canossian Sisters in Timor-Leste, to the coffee highlands of Ermera and the main capital city of Dili.
Launched in October 2024, our San Mateo Clean Water for Life project - partnering with the Rotary Club of Greater Marikina Valley (Philippines) and Rotary Australia World Community Service - delivers safe drinking water and a WASH hygiene station at Jose F. Diaz Memorial National High School.
CEO,
Lung Foundation Australia
Topic: 'Why Lung Health Matters'
Wednesday 2nd of October 2024
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
No 35, Sofitel on Collins
Also Online via Zoom
Event
The South Sudanese Peace Leadership Program, hosted by the Initiative for Peacebuilding, University of Melbourne and supported by Rotary Melbourne, is a three-day peace leadership program tailored to the critical role Australian South Sudanese community leaders and peacebuilders have in supporting longer-term peace, both within their communities in Australia and for political development and social healing in South Sudan.
Stephen McBurney, Head of AFL Umpiring
Adrian Anderson, Vice President MCC
Wednesday 25th of September 2024
12:45 PM to 2:00 PM
No 35, Sofitel on Collins
Also Online via Zoom
Event
September is Rotary's Education & Literacy Month. Rotary Melbourne is proud of our projects and achievements, including building a community school in North East Arnhem Land, improving literacy in Timor Leste, providing support for The Smith Family's Learning for Life program and innovating science with Monash University's BioEyes program.
We've been supporting The Smith Family's Learning for Life Program for nearly 20 years. Join us to volunteer at this year's Melbourne Marathon on Sunday 13th October when we work a drink station in the Ponsford Stand as the runners enter the MCG. You don't have to be a Rotarian to be part of this fun social volunteering event. Invite friends and family to join (minimum age 13). Click through and complete our contact form.
Are you interested in environmental sustainability? Have you been working on a project that showcasees this passion? Or, would you like create a project that inspires your peers to consider their environment?
WE WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT IT! The Rotary Melbourne Environmental Sustainability Award seeks secondary school students who can demonstrate leadership and people engagement in sustainable environmental practices.