This year, for the first time, the Rotary International convention is online and free! Rotaract members, friends and family can register and join the General Sessions and Breakout sessions to be inspired, connect with others and to open our minds to new ideas. Last night (Australia time), General Session 1- Together we Connect, was […]
Recognising Achievement and Effort: Australian Rotaract Awards 2016
At the 2016 Australian Rotaract Conference, Rotaract Australia presented a series of awards recognising outstanding effort and achievement by Rotaract Clubs, Rotaractors, and supporters of Rotaract. The nominees and recipients in these awards represent everything Rotaract is about. They’re really out there making a difference in their communities, whether locally, nationally or abroad. Most Outstanding […]
Elephants for Education
Cambodian charity Human and Hope Association Inc is excited announce the launch of Elephants for Education, a crowdfunding campaign that gives supporters the chance to support education in Cambodia. Supporters will also be rewarded with an adorable stuffed elephant (or even a whole family!) The organization, which recently celebrated becoming entirely locally run, aims to […]
Gladstone’s Helping Hands
Every 5 days someone has a limb destroyed by a land mine. On Saturday 11th June 2016, Rotaract Gladstone funded and constructed 3 prosthetic hands to be sent to Cambodia to help those that have lost their hand from a land mine of some sort. Collectively with Interact, Rotaract and Rotary from the Gladstone region, […]
Bianca’s Recount of Seoul 2016
Bianca L from Monash Rotaract travelled to Seoul for the Young Leader’s Summit, Rotaract Pre-Convention and Rotary International Convention: Korea is a beautiful country, filled with an intriguing contrast of historic and futuristic structures, as well as colourful, bubbly people and a strong sense of pride and dedication. I was lucky enough to visit Seoul […]
#Rotaract16 Global MDIO Leaders
Our RA Chairperson Jake got together with other Rotaract leaders from around the world at this year’s Rotaract Pre-Convention in Seoul Korea. The cumulative effort of all our fantastic service projects show the power of Rotaract to make positive change in our world! Jermaine Ee, Rotaract Germany, Rotaract in Great Britain & Ireland (RGBI), Big West […]
East Coast Trip
The Rotaract East Coast Trip Australia 2016 was a 2 week adventure from Sydney to Brisbane and back. 6 international Rotaractors from around the world: Gabrielle and Stephen from Canada, Michelle a Canadian Expat living in China, Sadek from Algeria, Minerva from Mexico and Liz a UK expat living in New Zealand visited over 10 […]
An Insider’s Guide to RI-Con
AN INSIDER’S GUIDE TO THE ROTARY INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION AND ROTARACT PRECONVENTION In the lead up to this year’s Rotary International Convention and Rotaract Preconvention in Seoul, Korea, Rotaract Australia Treasurer, Brett Sham, explains why he is so excited about Convention and reflects on his past convention experiences, and what you have to look forward to […]
Coins for Cambodia
Coins for Cambodia Human and Hope Association in Siem Reap, Cambodia, is a unique NGO in that they are entirely run by locals. Over the past few years, with the assistance of former Rotaractor/Rotarian, Sally Hetherington, they have been building up their grassroots organisation into one which focuses on alleviating poverty through training and education. […]
RAM at ARG: What to do now!
With the 2016 Australian Rotaract Games finished the greatest thing to see was the images of Rotaractors wearing their Rotaract Against Malaria tshirts but what are we actually to do about Malaria! As Rotaractors there are two things that we can do to do our bit to eradicate Malaria. Firstly spread the word, we as […]