On the 90th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Canberra, keynote speaker at the District Conference Maj Gen Michael Jeffries noted that the new Rotarians of 1928 had to break down barriers of reserve from early Canberra residents about this initiative from the US. He highlighted some of the amazing achievements of Australian Rotary including the 1985 Polio Plus initiative and support of the Diamond Jubilee Trust of Australia project to eradicate blindness across the Commonwealth. The Australia Trachoma Alliance was joined by Rotary in the Nourish our Communities project. Visit the End Trachoma 2020 website and learn about how Rotary is building healthy communities. He urged us to get behind the Soils for Life program that is providing farmer-to-farmer mentoring on regenerative land management. It has financial, social, and scientific aspects. Improving soils requires carbon in the soil from green vegetation. Water, food and soil security is the next global train smash. There is a need to reconnect urban Australians to their rural communities in order to provide food and economic security. We should have Rotary projects to establish gardens in every primary and secondary school together with a mandated curriculum across Australia.Maj Gen Jeffries District Conference 2017-2018
On the 90th anniversary of the Rotary Club of Canberra, keynote speaker at the District Conference Maj Gen Michael Jeffries noted that the new Rotarians of 1928 had to break down barriers of reserve from early Canberra residents about this initiative from the US. He highlighted some of the amazing achievements of Australian Rotary including the 1985 Polio Plus initiative and support of the Diamond Jubilee Trust of Australia project to eradicate blindness across the Commonwealth. The Australia Trachoma Alliance was joined by Rotary in the Nourish our Communities project. Visit the End Trachoma 2020 website and learn about how Rotary is building healthy communities. He urged us to get behind the Soils for Life program that is providing farmer-to-farmer mentoring on regenerative land management. It has financial, social, and scientific aspects. Improving soils requires carbon in the soil from green vegetation. Water, food and soil security is the next global train smash. There is a need to reconnect urban Australians to their rural communities in order to provide food and economic security. We should have Rotary projects to establish gardens in every primary and secondary school together with a mandated curriculum across Australia.