DISTRICT ASSEMBLIES
Geraldton & Kojonup still to come
If you haven't been able to attend a District Assembly, you are welcome to register for Geraldton or Kojonup
Click on the link or the flyer above to register for the location/date that suits you best.
Registrations essential
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It’s finally here! The “My Home” houses are nearing completion and 18 older women who are currently homeless will start moving into their new homes at the end of May.
Rotary WA has been a dedicated supporter of this “My Home” project and can proudly take credit for helping make these houses a reality. Rotary WA has provided homewares, furnishings and garden plants as well as bringing together other community groups such as Zonta, Soroptimists and Catholic Women’s League to work with us to transform the houses into very special homes.
Rotarians are invited to an Open House so they can inspect the houses on Saturday May 6 between 1 and 3pm.
District Governor, Ineke Oliver, will welcome everyone and highlight the work of Rotary WA at 1.30pm.
PARKING. North Fremantle train station car park. Limited street parking in Congdon Street.
COME BY TRAIN. Direct access from North Fremantle train station.
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The RYPEN (Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment) camp in May is fast approaching!
If you know someone who is 14-17 years of age who is
· Wanting an opportunity to develop and challenge themselves
· Looking to develop their self-esteem and confidence
· Interested in developing skills including leadership, teamwork, communication, goal setting and problem solving
· Wanting to build a network of young people and to make new friends
· Excited for a weekend of fun
Then we'd love to have them attend the RYPEN camp from 19th to 21st May 2023.
RYPEN depends on Rotary Clubs to sponsor participants, and the more participants we get the better the camp will be. We would love to welcome your applicant to the camp.
We've got an exciting and challenging program lined up for the weekend, so if you know of someone who would like to attend please get your applications as soon as possible.
Please send applications to rypen@rotary9465.org.au The camp costs $330 per attendee and your club will be invoiced later for the camp.
Applications close 1st May 2023.
If you have any questions or would like further information, please don't hesitate to let me know. You can email program chair Roy Philbin at rypen@rotary9465.org.au
or call 0418 948 847
Click here for an application form.
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We are pleased to announce the upcoming launch event for Rotary Western Australia and invite you to Save the Date for this special occasion.
This will be a great opportunity to gather together and welcome in the new Rotary year, hear from a distinguished keynote speaker, and enjoy an evening of networking, delicious canapés, and refreshing drinks.
Keep an eye out for more info to come!
Book Now for the Rotary Club of Mt Lawley Quiz Night 2023…
The Rotary Club of Mt Lawley's Annual Quiz Night is back on Friday 28th April! Come and help us raise funds to support Lifeline and other community projects. 30 tables of 8 are available for $160 per table. Join us for your chance to win a great collection of prizes, including exclusive jewellery from Matusik Diamond Jewellers in Mt Lawley.
There will be 8 rounds that test your knowledge in a wide variety of subjects, table quizzes and other fun games. Bring gold coins on the night for a range of fun games and there are some terrific prizes to win!
Book today by clicking the picture above or this link
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LIFT THE LID WALKS in WA 2023
Kwinana Rotary is holding a
Lift the Lid Walk on Sunday 7 May (10am for 11am start for around 20-30 minutes - event to around 2pm).
If any of your members are thinking of something similar, then maybe you might like to send a club/cluster ‘delegate’ to check it out before setting up an event locally for your own cluster/club. Plans are already underway for walks in Kalgoorlie-Boulder, Byford Districts, and Booragoon, in October-November 2023. Your club or club cluster can be next!
Your
ARH WA team can supply links to many of the community networks that may also be interested in participating, and your local IGA and/or Bendigo Bank is also worth approaching for support. Events planned to date with them are clearly working well.
Lift the Lid Walks are a great way to engage your local community, with Rotary, Australian Rotary Health, and with family and community health generally, especially mental health. This topic resonates in many WA communities, and a local community walk is a fantastic opportunity to broadly involve diverse local stakeholders in a very proactive way.
Your ARH WA team recommends approaching your local IGA stores and/or Bendigo Bank branches, as they have demonstrated willingness to be involved on the ground. It’s a great opportunity to involve parents and children, schools, local health professionals and community care workers, local government and support groups, local police and other state agencies, local service providers and local business people, and many other local groups in what Rotary does best — Service above self!
Good walking with you.
Warwick Smith
District Chair, ARH WA Team
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ROMAC restarts its aid project after COVID-19 pandemic
Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) is the Rotary Zone 8 charity that facilitates medical aid for children in the form of life saving and/or dignity restoring surgery, not accessible to them in their home countries. We are run entirely by volunteers, overheads are funded by investment income and all donations go directly to the care of children. We help the children and mothers of our island neighbours in Oceania.
There is pent up demand for our help from our shutdown during the COVID-19 pandemic. We currently have 5 patients in treatment and we are looking at possibly another 20 plus children before the end of the year. We need YOUR HELP now to meet this demand.
VOLUNTEER WITH ROMAC
We need Rotarians or Rotaractors to fill the following 6 vacancies at the National level:
• Medical Director - make life-saving treatment decisions
• Fundraising Chair - enable ROMAC to pay for children’s treatment
• HR, Training and Recruitment Coordinator - help recruit and train our volunteers
• Meetings Secretary - manage our virtual organisation
• Coordinator - support our online processes
• Operations Manager - look after our patients and their carers
All positions are up to 4 years tenure and expressions of interest together with a CV should be directed to the Deputy Chair, Glenys Parton, at deputychair@romac.org.au. Expressions of interest are due in by 25 April 2023.
People can also volunteer to work on their Regional ROMAC Committee in roles like fundraising, communications and media, Hospital liaison, Club involvement, patient care and hosting, and any other roles like Secretary and Treasurer when deemed necessary by the Region.
Your District is in the ROMAC Western Region and the Regional Chair is Phil Cordery. Please contact your Chair on 0419 047 075 or via email at western@romac.org.au to express your interest to serve on the Regional ROMAC Committee.
DONATE NOW
We very much appreciate and thank those that continuously give us financial support but unfortunately the number of clubs and individuals that donate to ROMAC is currently about a third of the number that used to support pre-COVID. As we move to the end of this Rotary year, if you and/or your Club have any surplus funds, please consider donating to ROMAC.
Donations can be made through our website (www.romac.org.au), donating online at www.romac.org.au/donate or at the New Zealand Rotary Shop or by contacting our Treasurer, Stephen Noble at treasurer@romac.org.au or on 0417 811 072.
Give a little, get back a lot. Show you care by volunteering or giving to ROMAC and helping these children in need.
WE CAN HELP YOU
We can help you and your Club by:
• offering you a ROMAC speaker to make a presentation at one of your meetings. Please contact your ROMAC Regional Chair if you would like to take up our offer.
• providing opportunities for you and your Rotary colleagues to have real, meaningful, hands on experiences helping to save the lives of children from our Oceania neighbours.
Contact me if you would like more information about ROMAC or visit our website www.romac.org.au.
Yours in Rotary,
D’Arcy
Ian “D’Arcy” Walsh
ROMAC Chair
24 Salisbury Terrace,
Collinswood 5081, South Australia
Mobile: +(61) 0418 844 170
Email: chair@romac.org.au
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Rotary International is globally recognised and admired for its participation and passionate involvement in community development projects around the planet. As individual Rotarians we proudly participate, thorough our local chapters in supporting our local communities on a daily basis.
As a proud member of Rotary, and quite new to Rotary, I am also a proud member of The International Association for Community Development (IACD) https://www.iacdglobal.org/ . Monthly Zoom webinars are held where we discuss subjects such as poverty, homelessness, fund raising, natural disaster relief (Türkiye earthquake) and refugee aid (war in The Ukraine). Participants attend from countries such as Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, USA, Scotland, Kenya, South Africa, the UK, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. A world conference is held in a different country each year, this year the World Community Development Conference is held from June 20-22, 2023, at the Darwin Convention Centre, https://www.wcdc2023fromtheedge.org.au/
I will be attending this conference in Darwin this year as a proud member of Kwinana Rotary and Rotary WA, I encourage other Rotarians from WA to attend as it is a perfect opportunity for Rotarians to network and share ideas with other community development practitioners on an international stage.
Rotarian
Anthony Miller
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World Immunization Week 2023
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World Immunization Week: Vaccines Save Lives
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During World Immunization Week, 24-30 April, join us in advocating for polio eradication and the importance of vaccines.
As one of the greatest advances of modern medicine, vaccines are safe, effective, and save millions of lives each year. Our progress in the fight to end polio is proof that vaccines work.
The Global Polio Eradication Initiative estimates that the polio vaccine has saved more than 20 million children around the world from paralysis. However, approximately 12.5 million children are totally unvaccinated. They are known as zero-dose children, and vaccinating them is critical to stopping polio for good.
We need to continue vaccinating the world’s children against polio, because polio anywhere is a threat everywhere.
Here’s how you can support Rotary’s efforts during World Immunization Week:
§ Donate to PolioPlus to help Rotary and our partners deliver polio vaccines to vulnerable children. Or start an online fundraiser to help us end polio using Raise for Rotary and share it with your network. Contributions will be matched 2-to-1 by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Join us during World Immunization Week and remind the world that together, we end polio.
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World Immunization Week messages are sent to a broad range of polio eradication advocates, including:
• The RI Board of Directors and directors-elect
• The Rotary Foundation Board of Trustees and incoming trustees
• Past RI presidents
• District governors, assistant governors, and governors-elect
• Rotary and Rotaract club presidents
• Regional leaders (RRFCs, RCs, RPICs, E/MGAs, and End Polio Now coordinators)
• District Rotary Foundation chairs
• The Communications Committee
• End Polio Now newsletter subscribers
• PolioPlus committees (the International PolioPlus Committee, End Polio Now: Countdown to History Campaign Committee, Polio Eradication Advocacy Task Forces, PolioPlus national advocacy advisers, national PolioPlus chairs, district PolioPlus subcommittee chairs)
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Latest Polio news update to April 1
