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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 40 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, click (here)
Response to COVID-19 Lockdown V2
With the latest lockdown announced by the government, we obviously have to continue our meetings by Zoom. As before, we will be doing these only twice a month, on the second and fourth Wednesdays.
Prof Matthias Ernst (to be confirmed)
Cancer Research in 2020, how will it impact on patient care?
Research has been instrumental to open up novel concepts on how to treat cancer ever since President’ Nixon’s “War on Cancer”. Declaration. While much of the research has led to incremental improvements, quantum steps forward have been achieved every few decades with immuno-therapy being the most recent one. What will be next and how does the Australian cancer research community contribute to it?
For further information, go to https://www.onjcancercentre.org/research
Update on Indian Projects - July 2020
- Bodhi Tree Special School - Transferred $ 14,000 for the 1st quarter July-Sept 2020
- Teacher Training Project - Prior to the covid-19 lockdown, RC Pune Sports City, the Organisers and Trainers were able to complete only five sessions involving 197 teachers. On-line training (Zoom) has recommenced in various school around Pune on 2 July 2020
For more details, go to (here)
Albert Park College and Rotary Albert Park are using the Premiers' Reading Challenge to raise money for the Victorian Bushfire Appeal. The Premiers' Reading Challenge has been changing lives for young Victorians for years, by inspiring millions of students to read. Now, Rotary and the school have found a new way for the challenge to support the community.
Committee Directors reports for the year below, click on relevant icon.
Today we received notification that our matching grant application has been approved. As you can imagine we were delighted and very happy with the successful outcome of the joint application. This is a joint project by Melbourne South, Albert Park, Port Melbourne, Hawthorn and Malvern Rotaries.
During this critical time, we have been continuing our support of Star Health (formally Inner South Community Health) in real and client focussed ways, as attached (here)
As you know we recently started a fundraising campaign for the Sovuzwa Educare Centre in South Africa. We've had a great response, but obviously with the current pandemic people's focus is understandably elsewhere. The facility is located in an informal township outside of Khayelitsha, itself just outside Cape Town, which has been hard hit by the virus. The situation in the area is dire, with even water becoming a rare commodity.
As you know we are dedicated & committed to our community in Maubisse, Timor Leste. COVID 19 is scary enough for those of us living in well developed cities. However our hearts and minds are never far away from our Maubisse friends & how COVID19 may effect their (our) community.
It is with this in mind the Solar Smiles team have decided to on donate all our masks, gloves, eye protection, hand sanitizer, hand soap, tissues that we hold in our Maubisse storage unit for the use of the frontline Doctors & Nurses at the Maubisse Referral Hospital to help keep them safe and treating patients during this pandemic.
The new Toyota Yaris that Rotary Albert Park helped Melbourne City Mission to purchase for their Learner Driver Program. For more photos, go to (here)
The City of Port Phillip program is currently assisting 20 young people from the local area, serviced by MCM St Kilda office. Currently about 60% of the program participants live in public housing in the South Melbourne and Post Melbourne areas.
Rotary volunteer mentors will undergo training by VicRoads and undergo mandatory training with MCM. For further details, see https://www.mcm.org.au/learning/youth-engagement/l2p-learner-driver
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 of $4,500 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 $1,000 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:
Rotary Albert Park runs a book recycling project where it collects books from local libraries and from direct donations, sorts and redistributes them in various ways to benefit the community. On the third Saturday of each month at the Farmers Market at Gasworks Park (weather permitting) we have a wide selection of these recycled books for sale. We are located at the back of Priscilla Jones' Cafe in Graham Street, Albert Park.
For more information on our book recycling project, 
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.
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