About Rotary

Rotary is a worldwide organization of business and professional leaders that provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and helps build goodwill and peace in the world. Approximately 1.2 million Rotarians belong to more than 32,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas

Rotary club membership represents a cross-section of the community's business and professional men and women. The world's Rotary clubs meet weekly and are nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

The main objective of Rotary is service — in the community, in the workplace, and throughout the world. Rotarians develop community service projects that address many of today's most critical issues, such as children at risk, poverty and hunger, the environment, illiteracy, and violence. They also support programs for youth, educational opportunities and international exchanges for students, teachers, and other professionals, and vocational and career development. The Rotary motto is Service Above Self.

Although Rotary clubs develop autonomous service programs, all Rotarians worldwide are united in a campaign for the global eradication of polio. In the 1980s, Rotarians raised US$240 million to immunize the children of the world; by 2005, Rotary's centenary year and the target date for the certification of a polio-free world, the PolioPlus program has contributed US$500 million to this cause. In addition, Rotary has provided an army of volunteers to promote and assist at national immunization days in polio-endemic countries around the world.

The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International is a not-for-profit corporation that promotes world understanding through international humanitarian service programs and educational and cultural exchanges. It is supported solely by voluntary contributions from Rotarians and others who share its vision of a better world. Since 1947, the Foundation has awarded more than US$1.1 billion in humanitarian and educational grants, which are initiated and administered by local Rotary clubs and districts.

AUSTRALIAN ROTARY HEALTH RESEARCH FUND (ARHRF)
now called ARH- Australian Rotary Health

In 1981, Ian Scott, a member of the RC of Mornington, proposed that a fund be established to raise funds through Rotary clubs in Australia, with the income from the invested funds to be used for research. His District, 9820, accepted the proposal and took the suggestion to the Zone Institute, the annual meeting of present, past and future officers of Rotary International. ARHRF was up and running.

The ARHRF definition of ‘Health’ encompasses a wide vision and includes all aspects of community health. The aim is to be a catalyst for projects that will improve the quality of life of all Australians.

Grants have been awarded to research on – Cot Death (1986 to 1994), Environmental Health Problems of the Aged

(1989 to 1995), Adolescent Health (1996 to 1999), Evaluation of the Rotary Bowelscan (1998), Ross River Fever (1998-

2000), Pre-Hospital, Emergency Care (1999-2001), Malaria (2000). Since 2000, the major focus has been on Mental Illness research, and removing the stigma associated with this debilitating illness, although a range of other research projects have received funding.

A record amount has been allocated to health research in 2006. The fund has announced that $1.4 million will be invested in Mental Illness research and a further $800,000 in other areas of health under the Funding Partners program.

 

Included in the $1.4 million in Mental Illness research are 24 research project grants, 9 PhD scholars (Ian Scott Fellowships) and 2 post-doctoral fellows (the Royce Abbey Fellowship and the Geoffrey Betts Fellowship).

 

Research in Mental Illness covers a wide range of topics including –

*Caring for a partner with mental illness.

*Better mental health for farmers.

*Helping parents with suicidal teenagers.

*Eating disorders.

*Parenting program for families of children with autism.

*Post traumatic stress disorder.

*Managing depression in cardiac patients.

*Dementia research.

*Mental health first aid.

*Bipolar in older Australians.

*Schizophrenia DNA bank.

 

In the ARHRF Funding Partners program, funds have been allocated to research in Multiple Sclerosis, Bowel Cancer, Prostate Cancer, Motor Neuron Disease, Malaria, Parkinson’s Disease, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Breast Cancer.

 

The CEO of ARHRF (ARH) is Joy Gillett, whose contact details are, Ph 02 8837 1900, email joygillett@arhrf.org.au or by mail to PO Box 779, Parramatta, NSW, 2124. The ARHRF website is www.arhrf.org.au.

 

Please consider the ARHRF when you allocate your club’s funds this year to help continue with our pledge of funding health research – by Australians, for Australians.

 

 

·        RAWCS LTD

 is a public company limited by guarantee. The governing body is the council, whose

members are all of the Australian Rotary District Governors of the day. The Board consists of, Chairman, Vice-Chairman, Secretary, Financial Controller, 5 Regional Chairmen plus representatives of both the District Governors and District Governors Elect.

 

District 9630 is represented through Northern Region.

 

PROGRAMS & PROJECTS OF RAWCS - are Project Volunteers (sometimes still called FAIM Teams), Project Funding, DIK (Donations in Kind), RAM (Rotary Against Malaria), SWSL (Save Water Save Lives).

 

A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY - RAWCS was accredited by AusAID as a Base Agency and as such is eligible for subsidies through the ‘AusAID NGO Cooperation Program’ subject to an extensive ‘Re-Accreditation Review’ every five years.

 

While accreditation by AusAID guarantees the status of RAWCS as an NGO and grants tax deductibility of funds for aid programs, it does not guarantee funding. That decision is dependent on the number of accredited agencies and the total funding available for overseas aid from the Federal Government.

 

·        A QUOTE OF NOTE !

"What is Rotary?   What is it all about?   Beneath Rotary's many and varied activities, there is the unchanging undertone of  goodwill,  goodwill,  goodwill."

Paul Harris' message on the 39th birthday of Rotary, - February 23, 1944. ( Rotary had its 100th anniversary in 2005 )

 

 

 

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