I first met Megan MacDonald in Los Angeles at the Rotary International Convention in 2008. Megan was on her way to Kenya to study at the University of Nairobi as a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholar. Megan has kept a blog on her activities and some of her posts are truly remarkable. Megan’s Blog Here is an [...]
It took her eleven months, but Kate Leeming is finally back at home in Melbourne after becoming what is believed to be the first person to cycle from the most western point of Africa across to the east coast. Her 23,000 kilometre adventure aimed to find the causes and consequences of extreme poverty in Africa. [...]
The US$555 million funding agreement between Rotary and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation marks another milestone in Rotary’s 20-year legacy of polio eradication work. Rotary, a volunteer service organization of 1.2 million men and women, made a commitment to immunize the world’s children against polio in 1985 and became a spearheading partner in the [...]
Some ideas are terribly clever and simple, materials technology is advancing so fast. In the world today, more than 2.6 billion people have no access to basic sanitation. That means that 40 out of every 100 people lack even the most simple latrine to perform their needs. The lack of toilets affects both society and [...]
Our Rotary Club is located in Coolamon NSW Australia. Feel free to look around and see what we are about!
