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Glenys Geary and District Governor Graham Peden

South Pacific & Philippines Office - SAVE THE DATE

Rotary’s Centenary is a time of celebration!

It Is a time to reflect on our past, and take pride

in all that has been achieved.

It is a time we play our part in the history of Rotary.

Our centenary is also the time to lay the foundations

for our future, as we still have much to do.

The key project in our centenary year will focus

on stopping the one in 16 children who die

in 9 Pacific nations before the age of five.

We invite you to join Rotarians across Australia

on 10th July for virtual fellowship,

as well as meet our R100 Centenary Ambassadors,

the Governor General and Mrs Hurley,

as they launch our national centenary campaign.

By joining us, you will witness the “Passing the Baton” ceremony

. The baton that will carry the symbols of our centenary

and will travel far and wide across Rotary clubs and Districts.

Please pass this invitation on to as many Rotary clubs

as possible so that they too can join this event

We ask too for your support in helping us raise funds

for our R100 Centenary project,

"Rotary Give Every Child a Future";

saving young lives in Pacific nations.

Please expect registration details on how

you can join within the next week.

We look forward to you joining in

and making your mark on history!

Kind regards,

Garry Browne
Hugh Bucknall

Chair - National Centenary of Rotary Committee
Founder - Centenary of Rotary Campaign

ROTARY INTERNATIONAL

South Pacific and Philippines Office

Level 2, 60 Phillip St. | Parramatta,

N.S.W., Australia 2150

Signup for the Walking Challenge at the 2020 Rotary Virtual Convention

to participate in some friendly competition amongst your peers

as you work your way up the leaderboard

and try to exceed the Challenge Step Goals to win prizes!

Take part:

https://www.hekahealth.com/rotary20

Did you know that Interplast continues to provide quality

training to surgeons, anaesthetists, nurses and allied health professionals

even during the COVID-19 global pandemic?

Our highly skilled volunteers are offering extensive support

to partners across the region utilising modern technology

to share their knowledge and skills.

With your generous support to our tax appeal,

we can ensure children requiring cleft lip repairs

will have access to safe surgery as soon as possible.

Please offer your support for these children at

: www.interplastappeal.org.au

Help us reach our $200,000 for mental health research by June 30.

Donate here: https://buff.ly/2y3vVKQ

#Liftthelidonmentalillness

Please Sponsor a “Tree for Life.”

in support of South Bunbury Rotary’s Community Project,

trees are $110 each.
Our target is to plant 100 trees during 2020.

The Trees will be planted along the picturesque

Frank Buswell Promenade Stirling Street Bunbury.

(located between the Stirling Street boat ramp and the Parade hotel)

The tree species are Ornamental ‘Double Flowering Plum’

(Prunus x blireana)

compliments the partnership already developed

between the City of Bunbury and the Japan Sister City ‘Setegaya’ theme.

We need your help to continue our humanitarian work,

to reduce human suffering and prevent economic losses due to malaria.

End Malaria for Good!

DONATE TODAY ——->

http://ram.rawcs.com.au

* One net costs $10 *

* Each Sprayer costs $450 *

* Train & Distribute nets - 10 Health Volunteers costs $1,600

Did you know that many medical facilities,

when upgrading equipment,

will leave old equipment in storage for years

before disposing of it?

This equipment could save lives in other countries.

The MERC (Medical Equipment Recycling Committee) Team

Rotary Club of West Perth

that collects, sorts, packs, and transports superseded medical equipment

for use in developing countries,

diverting these away from landfill.

They help supply health clinics and hospitals predominately based

in Asia/Pacific and Africa which provide health care

to some of the poorest people in the world.

Donations to the MERC's efforts are always welcome

and greatly appreciated, as many of these facilities

simply cannot function without the support of organisations like us.

If you would like to donate equipment

or would like more information on how you can help

support this project, please get in touch with

Tina Arthur via our Club.

The Great E-Bike Ride to Kalbarri E-Venture!

A few members of our club are riding on electric bikes

all the way to Kalbarri over 5 days raising much needed funds

for a well deserving Rotary charity

Bicycles for Humanity (WA)

The aim is to raise $5000 so please help out if you can.

Rotary Club of Bunbury Leschenault

Dolphin Discovery Centre

David brought his OAM bling for us to get up close and personal with

... serious regalia!

Congratulations to our club member Marie,

who was recently appointed a member of the Order of Australia.

Here she is mentioned in the local Reporter newspaper

Tonight we are enjoying our first meeting back in person, with the

Rotary Club of Morley

Italians Restaurant & Pizzeria

. We're hearing from Megan Davidson, national director of

Buddy up Australia

, on the work the not-for-profit does to connect current and former military

and emergency services personnel to community through

purposeful volunteering, social activities and mental health support.

Learn more about Buddy Up Australia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzCQfLVXmVg&feature=youtu.be

Love receiving these photos from

Borderless Friendship Western Australia - BFWA

of volunteers hard at work putting in new floors at

Sukanya's hostel for boys in Thailand.

We love getting to partner in projects like this

to help make a difference in the world.

DONATION OF MUCH LOVED KIDS BOOKS TO INDIA

Following the shipment of much loved kids books to Angel Orphanage,

Future Foundation in Telangana INDIA

the club donated $AUS 900

toward their food bill.

The pic is a thank you for the last shipment of books in November 2019.

June 18

Sleeping out in the cold tonight for the

Vinnies CEO Sleepout

. For tonight I’m doing what over 116,000 homeless people

in Australia have to do- sleeping out in the cold or rough.

Once again thank you to everyone for all your support

and generosity to the fundraiser

. Over $3,000 raised will support Vinnies

and their programs to assist the homeless.

Stay safe and well everyone!

If you’d like to donate please visit my fundraising page:

https://www.ceosleepout.org.au/fundraisers/matthew-pham/perth

#ceosleepoutau #vinnies #vinnieswa

Freo Rotary are organising their annual Sox , beanies

and teddy bear collection for our community of those in need.

Please contact us if you would like to con

tribute and we will arrange a pickup

stuartc@aussiebb.com.au
enquiry@fremantle.org

A few Como Rotary members, including JPE Clementine Kohler

and the Carson Street School Sewing Group,

visited our wonderful friends at Start Over Support (SOS) today.

This was to follow up the kind offer from Brad & Kathy at SOS

to accept donations of material and cottons from their supplies

to support their sewing for the children at Carson Street School.

Also to take a tour over their large warehouse,

which is well organised with many volunteers on hand,

and very impressive.

SOS support women and children who need to set up home,

escaping from crisis domestic situations,

which during the recent COVID-19 times has been on the increase

in our community, therefore causing extra demand on SOS.

The Sewing Group accepted material for their needs,

and also accepted material to be passed on to the

Rotary Containers for Timor project.

Thank you Brad& Kathy and the SOS team.

This is Community collaboration at its best!

Como Rotary Club is a proud Community Partner with SOS.

What a welcome! The "Art Instructors"

were welcomed back to City Beach Primary School today

after a Covid enforced absence.

It was great to be back - thank you Mari, Alison and Sue.

Hannah Horsley presents a banner to President Elect Julie

with her Certificate of Achievement

At tonight’s dinner meeting, Darrel Donovan,
Community Director, presented two more of our Rotary Community Grants.
They went to Allana Vegar, representing the chaplaincy
at Hillman Primary School
and Graham Martin from the Rockingham Marine Rescue.