Rotary Fighting Malaria in Uganda

Rotary Prahran has partnered with Rotary Kampala Kawempe to provide 500 mosquito nets to poor families in water sodden slums in Uganda. In the wet season, deadly mosquitos kill mainly children, so local Rotarians & Rotaractors have identified families in need and have delivered nets, education about preventing malaria and other essentials.

Rotary promotes Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

Rotary is a global organisation with diverse membership and Rotary Clubs are being encouraged to really represent the communities they serve. From it's beginnings as a businessmen's club in Chicago, Rotary looks & acts a lot differently today!

Saving a Playground from Landfill

Rotary Prahran is now a member of RORP... Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds, a project of Rotary Flemington Kensington that saves retired playgrounds from landfill by dismantling them, shipping them overseas to be rehomed thanks to Rotarians in developing countries.

Team leader Will Slade is pictured with Ian McMaster, unbolting the Victoria Gardens playground in July 2020.

Rotary & Uniting feed the homeless on weekends

It's cold and there's a coronavirus global pandemic, so hundreds of homeless people in Melbourne are being given emergency accommodation in hotels and motels around the city. Fed during the week but not the weekends? It was time for collaboration & action, with Uniting (formerly Prahran Mission), FareShare & Food Bank for food, Pinchapoo for personal care toiletries and Rotary Prahran to pack & deliver! First delivery was friday 5th June, from now on every friday! Join us?

Mental Health First Aid Sessions- September & October

Rotary Prahran has previously identified mental health as an issue in the local area, particularly with relation to homelessness. After running Mental Health First Aid sessions for residents and people working in this field, we realised that, much like regular First Aid, Mental Health First Aid is something useful to everyone in society. We particularly saw its relevance for businesses, people managers, and also people who face the public

Rotary Prahran sponsors RIMERN!

Twenty five years ago Rotarians, Lions & the City of Whitehorse established EERN, the Eastern Emergency Relief Network in Mitcham, to collect donated furniture and household goods and make them available to clients of relief agencies who were setting up new homes after coming out of long term homelessness, domestic violence, incarceration and more.

After helping thousands of families in need, five years ago EERN helped Rotarians in the western suburbs establish WERN (Western Emergency Relief Network) in Derrimut, and now both these Emergency Relief Networks are helping Rotary Prahran and other Rotary Clubs in the inner Melbourne area, to establish RIMERN.... Rotary Inner Melbourne Emergency Relief Network, so that the Melbourne Metropolitan network of Emergency Relief Agencies will be complete from East to West.

Rotary Foundation Centenary 2017!

Rotarians around the world will celebrate "our charity", the Rotary Foundation, as it turns 100 this year & passes $3 billion US in project funding around the world!

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Do You Want To Do Good In the World?

The Rotary Foundation funds Rotary projects around the world, providing education, clean water & sanitation, maternal & child health, promoting peace and economic development. Find out how here!

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