Events

Please join in to meet the18 outbound and inbound Rotary Exchange Students, Rotary Club of Caloundra and Caloundra Pacifice co-host this event annually. This trip exposes the students to our District, they are staying at Apex Camp Coolum,  after some time on the Sunshine Coast they will be travelling onto Kingaroy.

Our club is looking after the catering this year therefore I need numbers please RSVP 3RD DECEMBER

Weather permitting we meet under the larger rotunda near the coffee van

Cathy Booth’s passion for helping to give vulnerable children a second chance at life is inspirational. As a school teacher, mother of four, and grandmother of four, Cathy has always been an advocate for helping children to reach their full potential. After a short visit to Kenya in 2010, Cathy returned to Australia determined to start her own charity to combat child abandonment and orphaned children.  In 2016, after five long years of fundraising in Australia and creating the required infrastructure in Kenya, her dream of opening a self-sustainable children’s village in Ukunda, Kenya was finally a reality. Hear the difficulties of running the Umoja Project in a poverty stricken area of Kenya . 

Cathy will speak about how Umoja is so much more than just a children’s home.  Umoja is a project  which also helps the community, and how the support of Rotary and Rotarian Volunteers, has helped her team truly achieve the extraordinary while Cathy has continued to work full time up until the end of June this year in her profession, whilst overseeing the project from Australia. Cathy returns to Kenya twice a year to take Rotary Volunteers and other volunteers to the project.

We hope that you will see how determination, persistence, and passion have made this project what it is today.  Cathy hopes she can be your inspiration.

The National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) has been operating for over 30 years and its aim is to encourage young Australians to be the next generation of leading scientists, engineers and mathematics experts supporting a sustainable future for our nation.  Students moving into Year 12 who wish to follow careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics are introduced to research and researchers and encouraged to achieve excellence in their undertakings by helping to develop their communication and interpersonal skills.

3-4pm Set up -  2 NEEDED

4-6pm - 3/4 NEEDED

6-7pm Set down - 2 EXTRA NEEDED

IN ADDITION, we also need volunteers to walk amongst the people and promote Caloundra Rotary - what we may call "welcomers".

WHETHER YOU VOLUNTEER TO COOK OR WELCOME, PLEASE ADD YOUR CHOICE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION WHEN YOU RSVP 

FUTURE DATES:

19 Jan

A great social morning for our first meeting in 2020 - at Grahame Stewart Park, Currimundi.

Learn about our planned Sensory Play Area ;project

3-4pm Set up -  2 NEEDED

4-6pm - 3/4 NEEDED

6-7pm Set down - 2 EXTRA NEEDED

IN ADDITION, we also need volunteers to walk amongst the people and promote Caloundra Rotary - what we may call "welcomers".

WHETHER YOU VOLUNTEER TO COOK OR WELCOME, PLEASE ADD YOUR CHOICE IN THE COMMENTS SECTION WHEN YOU RSVP 

Guest Speakers - Gemma Sisia and a graduate of The School of St Jude.  

Details pending

This is a fun event and at the same time is a major fund raiser for ROMAC so that they can carry on with the Life Saving and/or Dignity Restoring Surgery for children mainly in the Oceania Region that cannot access this in their own country.

We will be using an Entry Form again this year and this form will be forwarded to you in December with instructions on completing it. We are requesting each Club appoint a Team Captain and he/she will complete this form.

More information at riconvention.org