Burnside Rotary Club

Community

The Rotary Club of Burnside is involved with many community projects. Several projects are supported on a continual basis over many years, others are single-event activities.

Some activities are held to raise funds to support worthy causes such as donations to the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the club's Carpe Diem Trust or upgrading facilities at the Helena Goldie Hospital at Munda in the Solomon Islands. Still other funds are used for emergency disaster relief or assisting communities in 3rd world countries with, for example, access to potable water. Occasonally the club may join with one or more other clubs on larger projects.

Some Rotary Youth activities supported by our club include:

Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE)
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA)
Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment (RYPEN)
Rotary Youth Driver Awareness Training (RYDA)
National Youth Science Forum (NYSF)
The Siemens Science Experience (TSSE)
The 4-Way Test Speech Contest in Schools
The Science & Engineering Challenge (SEC)
Rotary Youth Well-Being (RYWEL)
Preserve Planet Earth (PPE)
Youth Oportunities

Science & Engineering Challenge.

Tree-planting with Scouts & Guides groups.

Youth Opportunities, 2008

Other local community service and fund-raising activities:

Quiz Nights
BBQ sausage sizzle (Monthly Fullarton Markets)
Christmas luncheon for elderly citizens of Burnside
Trees for Life Environmental Projects (Chambers Gully, Warland Park, Dashwood Road Researve, Yankalilla soil erosion abatement, arid and saline soils demonstration plantation with RC Pt Pirie)
Charity Film Evenings
Car Rallies
Catering for functions (Variety Club Bash, Police Expo, Trade Shows)
Emergency Medical Information Booklets (EMIB)
Shelterboxes (Emergency Disaster Relief)
Rotary Oceana Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC)
Burnside Council senior citizens' Mystery Bus Tour

ROMAC - Leaving Hospital

Still other projects which the Club supports:

Group Study Exchange (GSE)
Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships
Rotary Australia World Community Service Ltd (RAWCS)
Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM)
Safe Water Saves Lives (SWSL)
Donations in Kind (DIK)
Rotary Project Volunteers (RV)
Australian Rotary Health Research Fund (ARHRF)
Medic Alert
Association of Community Service Organisations (ACSO)
Australian Campaign for Rabbit Eradication (ACRE)
Rotary Native Bird Nestbox Project (ROBIN)
Pride of Workmanship Awards
Water and Sanitation Projects (Timor Leste)
Shoeboxes of Love
Orphanages in Indonesia and Cambodia.

Bali Orphanage Children

For further information on Rotary-specific projects refer to the various Rotary web sites such as District 9520 and Rotary International or contact the Club.