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We look forward to seeing you at Oaks Oasis Resort.

We meet at 6.30 for 7am.

A prompt finish at 8am is assured!

Our Last Meeting

Shelters for Disaster Zones - Providing low-cost shelter systems for emergency response including multi-purpose, fold-up and flat pack systems.

Alan McGaw speaks about how shelter can provide hope for those that have lost everything. https://www.maddel.com

Sunshine Coast Photographic Competition

The Sunshine Coast Photographic Competition is open to primary and secondary school children living on the Sunshine Coast. The closing date is 29 March 2019 (midnight AEST).

The theme for the inaugural competition covers two categories:

Animals & Natural Environment

Each category will be divided into age groups:

up to 10 years ; 10-12 years ; 12-15 years ; 15 years +

There will be prizes for the winner in each category by age group

Full details at: photocomp.rotaryclubcaloundra.com.au

Providing Bio Toilets in Bhubaneswar slums

Caloundra Rotary - in conjunction with a Global Grant from The Rotary Foundation and other clubs & districts in Australia and India - is involved in a US$31,500 project to provide 40 bio toilets in 10 urban slums; originally 20 slums were to be targeted but the reduced number will provide greater effectiveness.

The first part of the project will be inaugurated during the visit of Rotary International President Elect Mark Maloney on 19 February to Rotary International District 3262.

It is anticipated that this project will be completed within the 2018-19 Rotary year. The project team is working on how to proceed with the other slums that have now been excluded.

There has also been a change in the training organisation. For more details of the latest changes, logon to the website, then click here.

Bhubaneswar is the capital of the Indian state of Odisha. It is the largest city in Odisha and is a centre of economic and religious importance in Eastern India. Bhubaneswar is often referred to as a "Temple City of India".

But ..... there are 338 unauthorised slums in Bhubaneswar - many households do not have toilets and a few who have sanitary toilets have no drainage, water and maintenance facilities!!

February is Peace and Conflict Prevention/Resolution month

Conflict and violence displace millions of people each year. Half of those killed in conflict are children, and 90 percent are civilians.

Rotarians refuse to accept conflict as a way of life. Rotary projects provide training that fosters understanding and provides communities with the skills to resolve conflicts.

Through our service projects, peace fellowships, and scholarships, our members are taking action to address the underlying causes of conflict, including poverty, inequality, ethnic tension, lack of access to education, and unequal distribution of resources.

Through academic training, study, and practice the Rotary Peace Centres program develops leaders who become catalysts for peace and conflict prevention and resolution in their communities and around the globe. Graduates of the program are reintegrating refugees in Sudan, creating jobs for disadvantaged women in India, and supporting reconstruction in devastated regions of the world.

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Rotary Connects the World in 2019-20

Rural Nursing and Medical Scholarships

"It is my aspiration to fully invest myself into rural and remote communities in the future and especially to help the state of the farming communities health and wellbeing through nursing, specialised care and rehabilitation. I want to be a district nurse in my own rural community – to return and help the community that gave me the opportunity to be a registered nurse."

- Lavinea McMillan, Rural Nursing Scholarship

Learn more about our Rural Nursing and Medical Scholarships: https://australianrotaryhealth.org.au/programs/rural-medicine-and-nursing-scholarships/

Rotary International

Day by day, year by year, Rotary members around the world are making a difference, transforming their communities, their nations, their world — and themselves.

Learn more about our impact: on.rotary.org/annualreport

Rotary Service

Rotary’s 1.2 million members serve communities around the world, each with unique concerns and needs. Rotarians have continually adapted and improved the way they respond to those needs, taking on a broad range of service projects.

The most successful and sustainable Rotary service tends to fall within one of the following six areas, these are Rotary International's six areas of focus:

Peace and conflict prevention/resolution
Disease prevention and treatment
Water and sanitation
Maternal and child health
Basic education and literacy
Economic and community development

Rotary International and The Rotary Foundation recognise that focusing service in these areas of focus can provide direction to Rotarians interested in developing service projects, improve Rotarians’ capacity to address needs and show the world that Rotary is a global leader in humanitarian service.

The needs spanning Rotary’s six areas of focus are vast, but with your help we can accomplish it.

IFMR Australia - register for the AIR2020 ride

Rotary's Four Way Test

Every minute of every day ...

Alan McGaw

Jan 22, 2019

Shelters for Disaster Zones

Providing low-cost shelter systems for emergency response including multi-purpose, fold-up and flat pack systems. Alan speaks about how shelter can provide hope for those that have lost everything. https://www.maddel.com

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