Tell us your Club’s stories!
Each week, radio program Rotary Matters includes an interview profiling a specific Rotary Club initiative from District 9685. We need your stories. Examples include support for international projects where we explore the needs, the solutions and the role of the sponsoring Club. Interviews with participants in youth related schemes like RYLA, RYPEN, RYEP, MUNA, NYSF, Science and Engineering Challenge, Conoco Phillips Science Experience and with recipients of Vocational Service Awards. Interviews are conducted by Zoom and after going to air they are posted to the Rotary Matters Facebook page and to podcasts which can be heard all over the world. If you’d like to promote your Club’s initiatives please contact the host of Rotary Matters, Ian Stuart, ian.stuart@optusnet.com.au or 0416 138 860. www.rotarymatters.org
Here are the links and descriptions for the latest three editions of Rotary Matters on Triple H 100.1 FM.
- Keeping the Community Connected with Virtual Neighbours
- Hippo Roller. A simple idea changing lives in the water crisis
- What’s Happening at Wahroonga Rotary…meet the new President.
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Here are the links and descriptions for the latest three editions of Rotary Matters on Triple H 100.1 FM.
Virtual Neighbours is a new initiative of Beecroft Rotary Club, meeting a real need to reignite the often overlooked local community feeling of being valued during a time of social distancing and isolation. Needy citizens are put in touch with a friendly, trusted and caring Rotarian who rings them up for a casual, friendly chat at agreed times. We meet Vinita Deodhar who has pioneered the scheme which is poised to expand into other suburbs. https://rotarybeecroft.org.au/virtualneighbour
A 90 litre rigid plastic drum, rolled along the ground changes the lives of people in the developing world who have traditionally carried water long distances, in buckets and on their heads. We meet Bob Selinger from Chatswood Sunrise Rotary whose club has paid for 156 Hippo Rollers to be made in Cape Town and shipped to the remote South African community of Pomfret. www.hipporoller.org
Each year there is a changing of the guard at Rotary clubs all over the world as a new Board is elected. Today we meet the new President of Wahroonga Rotary Club on Sydney's upper north shore. Janelle Speight explains how the club is governed, their areas of focus and some specific projects to engage the local community over the next 12 months. www.wahroongarotary.org