Guest speaker: Hayden from Clothes For Good

Guest speaker: Hayden from Clothes For Good Our club enjoyed a great presentation last night by Hayden (on the left in the photo), founder of Clothes For Good. Hayden started the first op shop in the Pacific three years ago, and through the op shop funds are raised for charity projects related to domestic violence, […]

Youth Without Borders – Spark Engineering Camp

Youth Without Borders – Spark Engineering Camp SPECIAL PROJECTS Youth Without Borders – Spark Engineering Camp In 2025-2026, Mina, ‘Youth Without Borders’, External Affairs Officer, addressed the club about ‘Youth Without Borders’ and its flagship program – Spark Engineering. Mina is a keen community volunteer, passionate about improving access to education, and is a former […]

Moira Kelly and the Children First Foundation

Guest speaker: Neuroscientist and advocate Dr Emma Burrows SPECIAL PROJECT Moira Kelly and the Children First FoundationThe Moira Kelly Report Moira Kelly was introduced to the club early in1997 when Past President Dennis O’Gorman invited her to a meeting as a guest speaker where she gave an indication of the good she was doing, and […]

Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds (RORP)

Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds (RORP) SPECIAL PROJECTS: Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds (R.O.R.P)R.O.R.P. is an Australian project that rescues decommissioned playground equipment from local schools and councils, saving it from going to landfill. The project was initiated by the Rotary Club of Flemington-Kensington. Volunteers label and colour-code the equipment, dismantle, and store component parts until a […]

Cotton Wool Babies

Epidermolysis Bulosa (Cotton Wool Babies) Epidermolysis Bulosa (Cotton Wool Babies) Epidermolysis Bullosa (EB) is a rare genetic disease that causes the skin to be so fragile it blisters and peals at the slightest touch. EB is characterised by skin fragility with blister formation occurring spontaneously or following minor trauma. Living with EB has been compared […]

ARH Indigenous Health Scholarship

ARH Indigenous Heath Scholarship – Ryan DiPietro Australian Rotary Health Indigenous Heath Scholarship – Ryan DiPietro Ryan DiPietro is a proud Trawlwoolway Palawa man from North East Lutruwitra (Tasmania). Ryan grew up on Wurundjuri Marin-Balluk country in the northern western suburbs of Narrm (Melbourne). He is a fourth-year student at Monash University studying for BA of […]