Rotary International designates October as Community Economic Development Month, highlighting projects that help communities achieve long term economic stability.
Core Focus Areas
Entrepreneurship Support.
Mentoring, Business training, and capacity-building for local business owners.
Poverty Reduction.
Sustainable economic initiatives designed to lift underserved communities.
Vocational Development.
Workshop focused on financial literacy, job placement, and digital skills.
Long-Term Investment
Emphasizing lasting economic growth rather than short term charity.
Terri spoke to us about her role in supporting and training teachers to use changes in the education program for Literacy in South West Victoria.
She covers an area from Warrnambool to Horsham approx 6000 students in this South West region. Every government school is mandated to teach structured phonics in every government school in Victoria.
Every student in Victoria does phonics check in year 1 via an assessment.
Terri and her team help teachers lesson plan for this Literacy program and makes sure the schools meet Vic Ed expectations.
Tyson Jakitsch
CEO at Loved & Shared
We all learned so much on the vocational visit on Wednesday morning to Loved & Shared. This follow on opportunity from Tyson's visit as a Daybreak guest speaker on Sept 2nd certainly helped fill the gaps and show us the extensive product range along with the layout out of the Loved & Shared operation in Cooper street. Tyson said they are always seeking volunteers to help sort, pack or even clean and perhaps mend items for Loved and Shared.
If you were not at this vocational visit, just look at the figures in the above photo of how many items are sent out in 12 months and you should be amazed.
Loved & Shared have been announced as the major recipient of proceeds from the 2027 Warrnmabool Daybreak Long Lunch.
President 2027- 2028
Our AGM is scheduled for November 11th.
Secretary Gerard will circulate nomination forms shortly.
We as club members need to nominate names to fill the following roles for 2027-28.
President
President Elect
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer
In accordance with the clubs bylaws - elections for 2027 - 2028 Rotary year office bearers must be completed within 5 months of the closing of the books for the previous year.
If we don't have a President, Secretary or Treasurer then we are in breach of the constitution and the club (Warrnambool Daybreak) cannot exist.
