Top row, Simon Varvaruc, Nigel Cousins, Brad Graham, Emily Cross and Chengkuach Alier.
Front row, Richard Howlett, Kate Holzaphel, Malak Usama and Lachlan Hall.
 
I congratulate them all for their perseverance and kindness in pursuing this special RYLA initiative through a very difficult time.
 
 
On Thursday the seventh of April 2022 a group of District 9820 Rylarians and their families gathered with Rotarians for a dinner and celebration. 
 
Together with RYLA 9820 Chair, Nigel Cousins, Youth Chair, Rob Cook, and District Governor Bill Degnan, they were at the Berwick Inn to celebrate a graduation. Fourteen Rylarians from the 2019 had achieved all the units, or selected clusters of units, from the Certificate IV in Project Management Practice, as a part of their RYLA program. They worked on Rotary projects to gather evidence and demonstrate competence. This particularly involved Rotary's East Gippsland bushfire relief program. 
 
The Certificate program was heavily affected by Covid-19, with two TAFE Colleges unable to complete the program, however, Rob Golding and Helen Sabell, from the College for Adult Leaning, in Mitcham, Victoria, stepped up to make it work.
 
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