Join the Sydney Rotary ZOOM MEETING 12:30 pm - 1:30 pm Tuesday17 May 2022
All proceeds from the Fiducian Charity Golf Day & Dinner help Vision Beyond Aus provide free eye surgery to the world’s most disadvantaged people.
Wednesday 25 May 2022 Avondale Golf Club |  |
VBA was established as part of Sydney Rotary’s international service in 2010 by Club Member Indy Singh, OAM, to provide free eye surgery to the world’s most disadvantaged people. Now an independent charity VBA, still led by Indy Singh, has supported 46,095 surgeries, and Indy is determined to reach 100,000.
Working with Australian medical practitioners who generously volunteer their time and skill and in-country specialist surgeons and staff, VBA funds and supports free eye surgery at established local hospitals and independent rural clinics committed to providing free care for those living below the poverty line. VBA provides surgical and post-operative consumables and necessary equipment to these centres, with facility refurbishment, to enhance capacity.
Join The Hon. Natalie WARD, MLC Minister for Metropolitan Roads, and Minister for Women's Safety and the Prevention of Domestic and Sexual Violence at the Sydney Rotary Meeting 12.30 to 1.30 pm Tuesday 24 May 2022 at The Castlereagh Hotel. The meeting can also be attended via Zoom but we would really like to see you face to face.
Booking link will be available here soon.
Saturday 14 May - Sunday 15 May 2022
The 2021 Rotary NSW Police Officer of the Year Awards, the most prestigious event on the NSW Police Force calendar, was again organized by the Rotary Club of Sydney on the 19 April 2022. This event marked the 2021 awards and it was great to be back after the event was postponed last year due to COVID-19. The 2022 Awards will be presented in November this year. In the presence of The Governor, Her Excellency the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Sydney Rotary President Mark Dyer recognised Sergeant Vanessa Rolfe from Crime Scene Services Branch as the 2021 Rotary NSW Police Officer of the Year.
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| The Governor congratulates Sgt Vanessa Rolfe |
RCS President Mark Dyer addressed the 550 strong audience on behalf of RCS Members and NSW Rotarians with a message of shared values, and an invitation for members of the NSW Police Force to seek out and consider joining their local Rotary Club.
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ydney Rotary Past President John Given, OAM has coordinated the Police Officer of the Year Awards since their inception.
The Awards involve every district across NSW and the Governor of each District attended the event and had the opportunity to each present an award in one of the ten categories. John Given has created a wonderful event that brings together NSW Rotarians and NSW Police members from across NSW to celebrate on this night of nights.
The best of the best is then chosen as the Rotary Clubs of NSW Police Officer of the Year award.
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The Rotary & UNICEF vaccination programme roll out has started in the Cook Islands
Vaccines arrive:  | Children and parents are lining up:  |
Vaccination done  | Stay Safe. Vaccines save lives:  |
The Rotary Give Every Child A Future vaccination programme is progressively being rolled out in each of the nine Pacific Island Countries. The project is on-budget with over 80% of the USD 3.9 million needed raised. We now have just USD 700,000 to raise to complete the project and make sure that we reach every last child in the Pacific.
Rotary International President for 2022-23 Jennifer Jones is planning a Global Impact tour visiting eight projects around the world highlighting the Rotary Foundation’s seven areas of focus and End Polio Now. She has chosen Rotary Give Every Child A Future as her Maternal and Child Health project of focus.
Donate Here $45 vaccinates 1 child. $450 vaccinates 10 children.
Sydney Rotary returns to Hyde Park to feed marchers & supporters assisted by The Salvation Army, PCYC & Darling Harbour Rotarians.
 Our thanks to Glenn Stafford, Roni Corne & Phoebe Alexander for their organisation & leadership. |  President Mark Dyer overviews operations |
 Behind the scenes |  Roni Corne receives guidence from our past BBQ king Joe Botta |
Rotary Soukup scholarship recipient Maddison Gibbs’ designs are featured throughout Jumbunna
Maddison Gibbs is a graduate in animation from the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building. She says that to create her work she considered Jumbunna’s purpose as a hub and safe space for Indigenous students. Dedicated Indigenous spaces such as Jumbunna can help to make universities
and other institutions more approachable and culturally safe for Indigenous students.
“I’ve acknowledged traditional imagery in creating personal contemporary multidimensional landscapes and imagery,” she explains. ”My images refer to smoke, campsites, industrial waste, sea currents and migrations, fish traps and more. “The patterns and designs are meant to draw the eye, start conversations and make a statement that we are proud, our culture is alive, and this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.”
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Information on Rotary Soukup Indigenous Scholarships at Project & Committees above.
Indigenous Residential College UTS
Vice-Chancellor Professor Andrew Parfitt recently invited Sydney Rotarians, led by President Mark Dyer, to discuss plans for the proposed Indigenous Residential College at UTC.
Following the meeting some Sydney Rotarians were shown through the refurbished Jumbunna by Maree Graham, Deputy Director, Students and Community Engagement. Jumbunna has always been a place to go for connection, support and a warm welcome for Indigenous students.  |  |
