Thank you for visiting Rotary Albert Park's website.
Rotary Albert Park (part of Rotary International) is a group of neighbours, friends, and community leaders providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards in all pursuits and helping build goodwill and peace locally and worldwide. Our club was established in 1992 and has a long history of service. We have a membership of about 20 with a 50:50 gender balance.
Join us for Dinner where we can introduce you to the Club & its members, and answer any questions you may have about membership. For more information, contact us at any time.
We also have a Facebook Group and share many of our upcoming events there.
Many of our meetings are recorded and available on our YouTube channel.
Interested in volunteering in and around the City of Port Philip? We're always looking for help! Register your details here.
2023 Artisan Christmas Market on Bay Street - Saturday 2nd December
We shall be again be operating a book stall, so help is needed. Please comtact Carol
Social Night
Bleakhouse
Join us for dinner and a chat.
Lea will be giving a talk on the membership workshop
Registration for the event is essential, and meals must be pre-ordered by 3pm on the day of the event, see (here).
Christmas Get Together
Join us for our last meeting of the year
Note that prior to this event, we need to approve changes to our constitution, previously forwarded
Registration for the event is essential
For further information, and to book, go to (here)
RAP Annual Christmas Book Fair - Saturday, 16th to Sunday, 17th December
Albert Park College
Ken will need assistance to run this very important fundraiser. Please contact him (here) or on 0403 802 127
Ashleigh Streeter-Jones Nomination
Ashleigh, who was our speaker on 10th August, 2022, and and ex RCAP RYPEN Participant, and also financially assisted by our club in her early days volunteering for World Vision in India, was last night nominated for the Victorian Australian of the Year.
Isa Adams receives the Sir Zelman Cowen Award
Isa Adams, long-time friend of Rotary, and wife of member Alan, has this week been presented with the Sir Zelman Cowen award from Fight Parkinson's at their AGM for outstanding service to the Parkinson's community. Since the first Parkinson's Walk in the Park in 2017 Isa has helped raise $160,000.
Sponsored by Rotary Albert Park
Last week, the St Kilda Peace Festival with the theme “Healing the Spirit” was held, showcasing multicultural and spiritual artists, musicians and creatives with interactive entertainment and music performances at O’Donnell Gardens, next to Luna Park, St Kilda. A Peace March followed to the newly installed Peace Pole on the Foreshore as a symbol of world unity much needed now. It was hosted by Brian Nankervis.
Bookshop Update - 18-September
We now have a new banner
Our bookstore in Wharf St, The District, Docklands has now been trading for over six months, so we've bought a new banner. This shop is being run together with the Rotary Club of Carlton.
Every dollar we raise goes back into local community and international projects. We have quality recent release books as well as some old time favourites in almost every genre. Come down and see us sometime. Normally open Thursday to Monday.
Cash and Eftpos available
We have recently received a Certificate of Appreciation from Wintringham Aged Care Home, for the assistance we give them. It's nice to know the effect of our support.
Thirty five aged homeless and socially insecure residents live in Port Melbourne at Wintringham Hostel. They pay 85% of their pension to live in the facility and struggle financially with hygiene products, clothes and some small items of furniture for their rooms. This club project will be filling the needs directly of the residents through a strategic partnership with Wintringham management.
Wintringham is a specialised welfare company that provides housing and care to elderly, frail men and women. The sole motivating philosophy at Wintringham is that of social justice. For more information, go to (here)
Each year the Rotary Club of Albert Park makes a number of Award for Excellence presentations to Year 6 students graduating from local primary schools.
Recipients are selected by the year 6 teachers on the basis that they have engaged constructively in school learning and other activities; and that they will be commencing Year 7 at a government secondary school the following year. The award is to assist in meeting some of the expenses associated with commencing secondary school.
Members of our Club attend the graduation ceremonies at our five local primary schools to present the awards. As well as the financial prize each recipient receives a framed certificate.
We started making these awards in 1994. After presenting 16 winners at the 2022 graduations, our total contribution to this program has reached $69,400.
Our 2022 Award presenters were:
- Albert Park Primary School: Lea Ram
- Middle Park Primary School: Stan & Vicki Teschke
- Port Melbourne Primary School: Lea Ram
- South Melbourne Primary School: Jim Prokhovnik
- South Melbourne Park Primary School: Raelene Hunt
Attached (here) are copies of thankyou letters received from the four winners from Albert Park
Primary School.
Primary School.
It was an honour to represent Rotary Club of Albert Park at the Industry Excellence Awards held at the Melbourne Pavilion on the 8th of February. We sponsor the Automotive Pre-Apprentice of the Year Award and it was a pleasure to hand the Award to Monique Kolyvas. The amount of $1000 goes to SD Tools, who generously double its retail value to $2000.
The event is extremely professionally organised; there were over 75 recipients to be honoured in two hours. The abiding impression I have is of the quality and enthusiasm of the recipients. It truly was an uplifting occasion.
Jeremy Paton
Please consider joining our partnership with RAWCS & donating to this very important fundraising campaign being lead by the ROTARY CLUB OF ALBERT PARK to make a difference in the lives of 500 girls plus the sewers & boys who will be receiving a health education with the distribution of the Days For Girls kits! This is a partnership with Bomet Days For Girls Enterprise, Kenya, an endorsed organisation operating under the direction of Days For Girls International.
Please watch this short video to learn more from our on-ground project Manager, Anita Byegon. https://m.facebook.com/groups/D9800discussion/permalink/10160382971918850/?mibextid=Nif5oz
With your help, our aim is for Anita & her team to start sewing the sanitary kits, distribute them & conduct the health education workshops by the end of January.
To donate, please click on the link provided or go to the RAWCS website. Please contact RC of Albert Park International Service Chair, Matthew Proctor, or myself to learn more. Donations of over $2 are tax deductable in Australia
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The renovation and re-establishment of the Kyebe Maternity Clinic is a project of Rotary Albert Park. The clinic is located in the Kyebe Sub-County, approximately 180km south of Kampala, Uganda. The facility was established in the 1950's to meet the medical needs of the local community.
Albert Park Members are working with the Rotary Club od Gaba, which has produced an introductory video of the project. They aim to improve the facility by concentrating mainly on the maternity ward, which lacks most of the basic requirements. There is a need to fix windows, doors, the roof, ceilung, verandah and water harvesting system at the ward, as well as eventually re-equipping the labour unit. These renovations will not only benefit mothers and babies. but also the midwives.
The closest alternative facility is around 50km away, and is often inaccessable by road due to weather and poor conditions. Recently, the entire area was cut off for two months due to floods - making the renovation of the facility a critical need for the health and well-being of the local community.
After a delay of two years due to COVID, Phil Hill was able to take a trip to Timor Leste to review the work of the Solar Smiles Dental Charity there.
To read the report, click on the picture at left
Rotary Albert Park supports Solar Smiles Dental Charity providing free preventative and relief of pain dentistry by taking Australian dental teams to Cambodia and Timor Leste, partnering with local dental professionals using their innovative Solar Powered Backpack dental chairs.
For further information, go to https://www.solarsmilesdentalcharity.com/
We are thrilled to inform you that our global grant application (GG25234199) for funding to provide training to Palestinian and Israeli physicians to treat trauma patients, submitted by the Rotary E-Club of District 7610 (Northern Virginia) and the Rotary Club of Holon (District 2490 Israel), has been approved by The Rotary Foundation and The Rotary Foundation Canada. The award is in the amount of US$ 85,350.00. Many thanks to you and your club members for your support.
For more details, go to https://www.projectrozana.org/
Women over 50 are the fastest growing group of people experiencing housing instability in Australia – often as a result of pay inequity, little to no superannuation or savings, divorce, domestic and family violence and time taken as unpaid carers. Adequate supply of social housing and affordable housing remains an enduring issue across Australia. Currently there are more than 40,000 applicants for social housing, on the Victorian Housing Register alone.
The Lakehouse is Melbourne's first Pop Up Shelter for women in need of temporary housing. For the Study report, go to (here)
Presentation of donation to One Ball. For more photos, go to (here)
OneBall is a free community program designed for young people aged between 8-18 years. The program provides opportunities for young people from CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) backgrounds across Melbourne to play soccer in a social setting and encourages them to:
- be fit and active, and to enhance both their physical and psychological health and wellbeing
- develop positive cross-cultural relationships with others, and
- feel more connected and empowered to make a positive contribution to their community.
Presentation of donation to Geoff Amor to support Orange Sky Laundry, see https://orangesky.org.au/where-we-are/melbourne/
The shortage of emergency response vehicles is a serious problem being faced in the Western Cape, South Africa, with the numerous fires that need to be contended with. The lack of vehicles often leads to emergency services taking up to 40 minutes to arrive at disaster scenes, especially in more remote areas. It goes without saying that the vital lost time can literally mean the difference between life and death. With the help of Rotary Albert Park, The Rotary Club of Newlands were able to donate a multipurpose vehicle to the Emergency Volunteer Services (EVS).
Below are some stories and video of the project:
Book Stalls at Gasworks Farmers' Market, Bay Street and Docklands
Rotary Albert Park runs a book recycling project where it collects books from local libraries and from direct donations, sort, redistributes and sell them in various ways (including on-line) to benefit the community.
- On the third Saturday of each month at the Farmers Market at Gasworks Park (weather permitting). We are located at the rear of Gasworks Cafe, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park
- We also hold a book store on most Saturdays in front of the Holy Trinity Church on Bay Street, Port Melbourne
- And our latest venture is a popup shop in Docklands.
Every dollar we raise goes back into local community and international projects. We have quality recent release books as well as some old time favourites in almost every genre. Starting at just $1, you can't go wrong finding that next holiday read.Come check us out before running to the big shops, I'm sure you'll find something to grab your interest
Cash and Eftpos available
For more information on our book recycling project, go to (here)
Other Media Pages
The club is also on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram. There are often additional posts entered by members and by other clubs, and it is a great way to get notified of events and functions.
