Welcome
 
Welcome to the Rotary Club of Mount Martha.  We are a group of men and women from all walks of life  working together on projects locally and internationally to make the world a better place.  If you would like to  give back to your community in some small way, expand your network, experience personal development and make new friends along the way we invite you to a cost free, no obligation "test drive".
 
Come and check us out.  
 
Roger Skipsey – President
 
COVID19 - We are still operating
The Rotary Club of Mount Martha meetings is one of the most enjoyable things about being in Rotary. Nice company and conversations as well as all the nitty-gritty Rotary stuff thrown in for good measure. 
 
Unfortunately, nature has played a winning hand and shut our meeting schedule down for a while. In the meantime, we are trying out our online communication skills to beat COVID 19 and keep us all ready to do some amazing things in the world once this dilemma has abated.
 
Who knows how long that will be, but rest assured we are all still working away to make the world a better place down the track!
 
Stay tuned!
 
 
 
 
 
If you are interested in Rotary, what it does and how it works, now is the perfect time to find out!
 
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Who are we - People of Action
New additions for Mornington Park Primary School
 
  
The club has undertaken a number of projects at the Mornington Park Primary School such as landscaping, building minor works and certain maintenance/improvement tasks, to assist schools channelling funds into programs for needy children
The latest project was the re-development of an outdoor area at the school. The work shown, was the building of 3 planter boxes for planting vegetables for the kitchen garden program. Rotarians worked with Jeff and Glen from the school and school students filled the boxes with the soil.
The final phase will be the planting of trees and shrubs around the perimeter of the paved area. 
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Supporting Education & Literacy
 
More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population. 

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

 
Supporting the environment becomes a new area of focus

The Rotary Foundation Trustees and Rotary International Board of Directors have both unanimously approved adding a new area of focus: supporting the environment.

More than $18 million in Foundation global grant funding has been allocated to environment-related projects over the past five years. Creating a distinct area of focus to support the environment will give Rotary members even more ways to bring about positive change in the world and increase our impact.

Supporting the environment becomes Rotary's seventh area of focus, which are categories of service activities supported by global grants. It joins peacebuilding and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and community economic development.  https://www.rotary.org/en/supporting-environment-becomes-new-area-focus

Playgrounds recycled for overseas
 
Members of Mt Martha Rotary recently took action in creating lasting change through the clubs Rotary Overseas Recycled Playgrounds project. Three recycled playgrounds that were harvested from Dega Ave Bentleigh, Bay Mt Martha and Memorial Drive, Noble Park have been delivered to the Rotary Donation in Kind (DIK) warehouse in Footscray.
 
These playgrounds were loaded in a shipping container and are now bound for Sri Lanka.
 
In the coming weeks, several other playgrounds will be harvested from sites throughout the Mornington Peninsula region.
Changing lives around the World

The Rotary Foundation transforms your gifts into service projects that change lives both close to home and around the world.

Since it was founded more than 100 years ago, the Foundation has spent more than $4 billion on life-changing, sustainable projects.

With your help, we can make lives better in your community and around the world.

Our mission

The mission of The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is to enable Rotarians to advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through the improvement of health, the support of education, and the alleviation of poverty.

What impact can one donation have?

  • For as little as 60 cents, a child can be protected from polio.

  • $50 can provide clean water to help fight waterborne illness.

  • $500 can launch an antibullying campaign and create a safe environment for children.

https://www.rotary.org/en/about-rotary/rotary-foundation

Rotary needs people like you to make a difference.
 
It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, a professional, a stay at home parent, a teacher, a doctor, a tradie or a farmer. We need young and old, retailers, gardeners, athletes, social workers, artists, grandparents and retirees too. If you have something you care about, and want to make a difference in your community, seek out Rotary!

Despite what you may have heard, you don't have to make a commitment to weekly meetings. We're happy to take any help you can give! For some people that means occasionally turning a sausage at a fundraising BBQ, but for others that means planning major projects or travelling overseas to participate in humanitarian aid programs.

Rotary has something for everyone. Please get in touch and find out more. Getting involved with Rotary could be the best thing you ever do!

Please contact our club to find out more.
 
History - new leader for Rotary International

History - The first woman to be named Rotary World President. Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a groundbreaking selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history. https://www.rotary.org/en/jennifer-e-jones-makes-history-becomes-first-woman-named-rotary-president-nominee

Volunteering Opportunities with Rotary

Rotarians are people who display leadership in their business, professional and/or community lives and who strive to make the world a better place through practical efforts. Rotarians seek out opportunities for service, devise solutions, design solution delivery, and deliver solutions. Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. Rotarians make things happen. Volunteers are involved, but Rotarians are committed. It is a much more challenging task to recruit a Rotarian than to recruit a volunteer. Rotary connects leaders to make positive change.

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