Club International Projects

CLUB INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS AS PER CLUB SURVEYS
– 2024-5
The projects below were those mentioned in the Club Surveys received by the Committee in late 2024. Some were being pursued by multiple Clubs while others had been ‘discovered’ individually and were being undertaken by single Clubs on the whole
If you would like information on any of these projects please email me at international@rotary9815.org.au and I will put you in touch with the appropriate person
Janne Speirs
(International Chair 2024-)
  • End Polio
  • Wheelchairs for Kids
  • Wheelchairs for Kids (and Teddy Bears)
  • WFK Wheely Days
  • Rotarians Against Malaria
  • InterPlast
  • Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children
  • Donations In Kind
  • R.A.R.E – Donations In Kind Stores
  • Dpnations in Kind Educational Supplies
  • Operation Cleft Australia
  • Operation Toilets Australia
  • Rotarians Against Malaria
  • Disaster Aid Australia
  • Skyhydrants
  • Cablaqui-Manufahi Rotaract Book Drive and Community Library*
  • International Service Trip to Fiji
  • Remote school in Bali (number of projects over the years) – current project is to purchase compulsory uniforms - many of the local families struggle to have enough money to buy uniforms for all their children, therefore this can impact on the number of days students can attend. 
  • Emergency Relief (as it arises)
  • Every Child a Future
  • Fostering Futures for Kids in Farkwa, Tanzania. On-going support of two students in their education.
  • Timor-leste projects - addressing health, education and sanitation – Supporting Friends of Timor-leste Timor – Leste Rotarians. Construction of a toilet block.
  • Hamlin Foundation – An annual High Tea to support the Hamlin Fistula hospital in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
  • Isabel Beardmore Home for the Aged, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa -  Proposed vegetable garden project. The Rotary Club of Pietermaritzburg will manage the project.
  • Bali Children Foundation Student sponsorship
  • TeamMED
  • TeamMed Nepal
  • Water bore
  • Toilets in Cambodia
  • Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds
  • Drug Education in Pakistan
  • Project EWash in Ethiopia
  • Timor Rotary Consortium  Project – Wash Project
  • Cervical Cancer Mobile Testing Unit – Indonesia (Global Grant)
  • CRP Rehabilitation Centre – Bangladesh
  • Cambodian Student Scholarship
  • Water supply, Birthing Kits & Midwife’s hut Ingin, remote PNG
  • Birthing Kit Foundation Australia
  • Kiriwina Education Aid Program
  • Family Care Uganda – Global Grant
  • SHEBA Medical Assistance in Bangladesh
  • Rotaract Trip to Nepal  
  • Hearing tests, supply hearing aids in rural Cambodia
  • Building 6X school classrooms in Kratie.
  • ENT service at Angkor Children’s Hospital, Cambodia
  • Spectacles to Vanuatu
  • Classroom(s) in Vanuatu: This club has resolved to investigate the opportunity to assist in the construction of classrooms @ $15,000 per room at Popowoh School, Teoma, Vanuatu. This proposal arises from Pacific Islanders from that community working as seasonal workers at the apple farm of one of the club’s members. It is in the early stages of investigation
  • Solomon Islands:  school and medical clinic at Taba’a village (long-term project, initially with on-location construction and support, more recently financial - “political” - support for nursing staff).  Awaiting local advice for next project
  • Ukraine: support funding battery packs for medical devices, through RC Hitchin Tile House, UK. Looking to establish Global Grant for this project now.
  • Scholarship Grant: RC Traralgon to support post-graduate study in New York, USA.
  • I am Someone – Educational scholarships in Uganda
  • Spend It Well – School Garden in Timor Leste
  • School of St Judes – Tanzania
  • Bulawayo Orphans Education - (Children’s fees and school supplies) – [Payment of school fees for 10 AIDS orphans in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe – compleoon 2025. RC Bulawayo South (RCBS) and Parish of Putney UK, Vulindlela Guardians (Bulawayo)
  • Nepal Education through Michael Parker Foundation and RC Eltham [Financial support for Aussie Action Abroad to provide teaching resources, student supplies and teacher training in remote areas of Nepal].
  • Tonga Hearing Screening project for Primary School (expected completion 2025) It involves training a team of nurses to screen the hearing of approximately 3000 students in Years 1 and 2 primary classes at 63 schools on Tongatapu the main island of Tonga. The project also involved provision of specialist equipment and details of the screening results will be shared with teachers, parents and the hospital’s ENT clinic for follow-up if required.
The project is supported by a Foundation Global Grant, funding from Australian and international Rotary Clubs and RAWCS.
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