2025 Recipients Announced!!!
Join us for the Presentations to Geordie and Irit
at the Rotary Rose Bay Annual Changeover Dinner
Tuesday 22nd July at 6pm | Woollahra Golf Club | $70 pp
For more details email: rosebayrotary@gmail.com 
 

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ROCK AID - FUND RAISING EVENT 
 
EV Charging for Apartments- Information Night
The presentation by Doron Lazarus, National CEO of Save a Child's Heart, to our club on 17th August, overwhelmed our members with emotion at the outstanding work this charity performs around the world.
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART

Since 1995, Save a Child's Heart has treated over 6,000 children suffering from congenital and rheumatic heart disease. Approximately 50% of the children are from the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, Iraq, and Morocco, more than 40% are from Africa, and the remainder are from Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Americas.

"As long as children with rheumatic and congenital heart disease around the world continue to suffer without access to care, we will treat children, train medical professionals and raise the level of pediatric heart care worldwide, from our heart in ISRAEL. From the children and parents with the courage to trust, to the doctors with courage to heal, we are SAVE A CHILD’S HEART."

www.saveachildsheart.org

 
 
The presentation by Doron Lazarus, National CEO of Save a Child's Heart, to our club on 17th August, overwhelmed our members with emotion at the outstanding work this charity performs around the world.
SAVE A CHILD'S HEART

Since 1995, Save a Child's Heart has treated over 6,000 children suffering from congenital and rheumatic heart disease. Approximately 50% of the children are from the Palestinian Authority and Gaza, Iraq, and Morocco, more than 40% are from Africa, and the remainder are from Asia, Eastern Europe, and the Americas.

"As long as children with rheumatic and congenital heart disease around the world continue to suffer without access to care, we will treat children, train medical professionals and raise the level of pediatric heart care worldwide, from our heart in ISRAEL. From the children and parents with the courage to trust, to the doctors with courage to heal, we are SAVE A CHILD’S HEART."

www.saveachildsheart.org

 
 
Bushfire Appeal 
 
 
Thank you to those that gave to the Rotary MidCoast Bushfire Appeal at Eastgate Shopping Centre Bondi Junction.

The generosity of the locals helped raise $7,900 which was supplemented by the  $1,200 donated by Sydney Water for Rotary Rose Bay BBQs at Parsley Bay and Diamond Bay. 
 
The total of $9100 was paid to the Rotary Club of Taree who used these monies to distribute cheques to local families impacted by the fires.
Rotary Club Member named 2020 Woollhara Citizen of the Year
 
Congratulations to Barry Joseph who has been named the 2020 Woollahra Citizen of the Year for his outstanding volunteer contribution to our local community.

Barry is a well known and highly respected member of the Woollahra community for his wonderful long-term contribution as a volunteer. He has been a very active member of Rose Bay Rotary for more than 30 years and an active participant in Rose Bay Rotary charity and fundraising events. He was Federal Executive Director of the Australian Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for 15 years prior to becoming the Honorary President of the NSW Division. Barry has been a Board Member for 18 years of the Sir Moses Montefiore Home for the Aged. He is a member of the investment committee and co-chairs the admissions committee.
Barry said it was a “wonderful thrill" to win Citizen of the Year.
"I have always enjoyed helping people and I think it is so important to give back to the community," Barry said. "It gives me great pleasure to help people."
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Mayor of Woollahra, Susan Wynne, said she was delighted to formally acknowledge the achievements of these remarkable people within our community.
“In Woollahra, we are blessed to have many amazing community-minded residents who are dedicated to helping and inspiring others and making our local area a better place to live,” the Mayor said.
“Congratulations to all of our winners and thank you for everything you do for our community”.
 
 
Shoes for Africa Project
 
 
 
The "Shoe Train" Project was conducted with the support of local schools and the Rose Bay community. We were able to collect 9,000 pairs of shoes - mainly school and sport shoes - which were then shipped to a needy community in Kenya.
Annual Movie Premiere Fund-Raiser
 
Our Club has traditionally hosted a film premiere each year as a major fund raising project, proceeds going to one or more local charities
Annual Rose Bay Street Fair
 
For many years Rose Bay Rotary organised the annual Rose Bay Street Fair, which promoted local business and provided a day of fun, food and entertainment to local families.
Home Page Stories
Nepal School Project 2002

Lo-Manthang Schoolroom Project, Upper Mustang, Nepal

Following a commitment confirmed at the Club’s General Meeting to support classrooms at a monastery school at Lo Manthang, Upper Mustang, Nepal, President Carl Segal, arranged for a sum of AUD$4,000.00 to be telegraphically transferred direct to the account of the School in Nepal.
 
Background
Lo Manthang is a forbidden feudal kingdom located high in the remote regions of northern Nepal, a sparsely populated region where an ancient Tibetan culture still reigns.
The population of about 7000 is scattered amongst a series of 28 small communities and nomadic tribes.
Since the Chinese occupation of Tibet (1959) which used to be the source of ancient Mustang’s culture, the close cultural and religious ties have been totally severed. This in turn, has resulted in a negative impact on the prevailing traditions due to the people being exposed to the totally alien culture of the present Government.
 
The Project
The principal of the school welcomed the opportunity to build two more classrooms onto the school, using the teachers and students as labor to minimize cost, and the school principal said, “To build an element of ownership and pride into the activity”. “The need is to expand teaching space as there are far more potential students in Lo Manthang then there are facilities to teach them”.
There was only capacity to teach 55 Students at Lo Manthang’s only school.
 
The principal also stated “The generosity of The Rotary Club of Rose Bay, has enabled young people who might not otherwise receive any education at all to attend school Previously uneducated children of upper Mustang will now have the opportunity to learn more about their own cultural heritage and the Tibetan language as well as English and Nepali”.
 
The new Ambassador to Nepal Mr Keith Gardener officially handed over the money at a small ceremony earlier this year to the Abbot of the Tsechhen Shedrub Ling Mon Gon Lobara (Great Compassimete Sakyapa Monastic School).
 
Building commenced in May of that year, when the snow thawed and access to this remote area by foot was again possible. The School regularly relocates to Kathmandu the capital of Nepal during the cold winter months.
 
  
 
 
 
 
Nepal Remote Eye Camp Rose Bay Project 2005

 

“When a blind person is brought on the back, carried all the way about 2 to 3 days journey and then 1 operate on him and the next day he sees the light - and he puts his hands to me in utter gratitude...I can take that as the most enduring thing 1 can expect in my life.”
Dr Nawang Tenzing, Bhutan
 
History
Dr Sanduk Ruit, Medical Director, Tilganga Eye Centre was invited by the late Fred Hollows to train with him at Sydney Prince of Wales Hospital in 1986. The partnership that was forged in that year would revolutionise the way people deal with cataract blindness in developing countries. A low-cost high-volume lens implant surgery technique was developed enabling surgeons to perform lens implantation with simplicity and few resources. 
The Tilganga Eye Centre provides cataract treatment and trains doctors in the treatment techniques.  An important component to the Centre’s provision of treatment is its remote area Eye Camps.  These camps have changed the lives of many people and provided training to over 100 surgeons and 53 paramedics from Eye Hospitals in Nepal and surrounding regions.
 
The Rotary Club of Rose Bay has supported Four Eye Camps
The first was at Duhabi near Biratnagar, a small country town in Terai near the Indian Border in the Eastern part of Nepal.  Two specialists and three other doctors in training performed 773 operations (395 male and 378 female) with 2,300 outpatient treatments during the five-day period.
·      The second Eye Camp was at the village of Tupche, Trisuli where two surgeons performed 261 lens transplants with 1,260 outpatient treatments
·      The third Eye Camp took place at Dhankuta where three surgeons (including the first surgeon to attend from South America) conducted 236 lens transplants and 1,450 outpatient treatments.
·      The fourth Eye Camp, was held at Phaplu, Solu, a very remote area with no roads, where one surgeon and two trainee Ophthalmic Assistants conducted 901 screenings 106 lens transplants and 9 other operations,
 
Help us to help others see the future more clearly
 
 
 
 
 
Rotary’s Response to the 1918 Flu Pandemic

An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.

This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year.

The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic.

Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley.

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