RCW Supports Innovative Young Minds. The Innovative Young Minds (IYM) programme is designed to encourage young women to explore science, technology, engineering, mathematics and high-tech manufacturing - fields we call the STEMM sector. The week-long residential programme is open to female Year 11 and Year 12 students in the Greater Wellington... Keep Reading
Club donates IT gear to Te Ara centre On 6 July, club members visited Te Ara/ the Wellington Activity Centre to present ten laptops and chrome books for the students’ use. RCW has donated $6,900 for this equipment and an upgrade of IT services to enable students to do online NCEA and other studies. The centre takes up to 20 young people... Keep Reading
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A former New Zealand High Commissioner to the Cook Islands says a new mobile health clinic for Rarotonga has been designed for use in disasters.
On Saturday 16 June, 39 volunteers (plus Ben the dog) turned up on a mild winter’s morning to push towards our goal of planting 100,000 trees by 2021. Forest at the Heart of the City gained a further 400 plants in the ground thanks to these hard workers. It was a particularly difficult site with quite a trek from the street to the steepl... Keep Reading
Cellist Lavinnia Rae was the winner of the 2016 Rotary Club of Wellington Music Prize for Undergraduate Classics. This annual award is made possible by a Trust fund established by Sir Roy McKenzie OBE, a past Rotary Club of Wellington member and well-known New Zealand philanthropist who was an avid supporter of young musicians. The award is... Keep Reading
Rotary ForumThu 23 Aug 2018, 12:00 pm
Community Development Event
Wellington
Registrations from 11.30 am
It follows from the highly successful 2017 Forum, when we gave a platform to diverse voices – speakers and participants – to share the challenges and some inspirational ideas on the future of Wellington. For 2018 we have invited a new set of speakers – twelve disruptors and dreamers - to choose their own topic, to detonate powerful ideas... Keep Reading
In parts of the Pacific, nearly 1 in 16 children die before their 5th birthday. We’re going to stop that. https://everychildafuture.com #everychildafuture
Chris Parkin’s generosity-of-spirit has few boundaries and, as a result, he does nothing by half. Whether it’s founding the Parkin Drawing Prize. Whether it’s venturing into railway locomotion to relocate a 3000 tonne hotel on Wellington’s waterfront, or whether it’s riding a motorbike with his good mates around remote parts of... Keep Reading
Rotary Club of WellingtonNight Tour of Zealandia Well the weather was keen to drench this event held on 30 April but Zealandia staff and volunteers weren’t deterred and 23 hardy Rotarians and friends went out in the damp and dark to experience the sanctuary at night. A larger group had been welcomed with nibbles and drinks and enjoyed a brief summary of ... Keep Reading
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Lalomalava Village Garden Update Background and Current Situation In 2015, the Rotary Club of Wellington partnered with the Rotary clubs of Karori and Apia, Volunteer Service Abroad and the Tindall Foundation to support the establishment of a commercial garden in the village of Lalomalava, Savaii, Samoa. The following i... Keep Reading
The 2018 District 9940 Conference - Rotafest is being held in Palmerston North from 11 - 13 May 2018. Register here:https://hoteventsnz.eventsair.com/rotafest2018/rotafest-2018/Site/Register Keep Reading
First Summer Edition of the District 9940 Rotary Foundation Newsletter Including: Polio Update Feb 2018, Emergency Response Kits, Kapiti Life Saving Equipment, District Grant Progress Report China Teacher Exchange, “Te Pahi” Our Community Bus Keep Reading
Forest at the Heart of Wellington 2018 Call to Action At the Rotary Club of Wellington meeting on 12 March 2018, Kellie Brenner of Conservation Volunteers spoke briefly about the 2018 plan for our Centennial project, Forest at the Heart of Wellington. With 45,000 plants in the ground to date, there is plenty of work still left to do, w... Keep Reading
Give Every Child a Future - Our Australasian Centenary Project - Sustainable Introduction of Three Vaccines into Nine Pacific Island Countries Rotary Centenary Project. In 2021 Rotary in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific will be 100 years old following the establishment in 1921 of Rotary Clubs in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Wellington Keep Reading
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