ROTARY CLUB OF MATILDA BAY
CLUB PROFILE
The Rotary Club of Matilda Bay was chartered in 1979. Members meet every Wednesday morning at 7.00am for 7.30am for networking and 7.30am to 8.30am for a one hour breakfast meeting at the Matilda Bay Restaurant. Our guests are interesting, challenging or inspirational – or all three! The atmosphere is bright, full of fun and good friendship.
There are about 33,000 clubs in more than 200 countries around the world and are members of Rotary International which celebrated its centenary in 2005. The total membership worldwide is around 1.2 million men and women.
The Rotary Club of Matilda Bay supports projects on three levels – local, national and international.
Locally, we support Canteen, University Camp for Kids, Ronald McDonald House, RYDA, RYPEN of our many beneficiaries. We have a strong bond with our ‘link’ school Mirrabooka Senior High School. We sponsor their senior students in programs of personal development, driver education, public speaking and help many to prepare to enter the workforce.
Over 20 years ago, we established a Memorial Garden at KEMH where the ashes of stillborn babies are interred. It was recently upgraded at a cost of $70,000 with the support of a LotteryWest Grant. We regularly maintain the garden so families return to a peaceful and tranquil setting.
Statewide, we were a major donor toward the Rotary Cord Blood Bank. This new facility is managed by the Red Cross Blood Service and provides free, ethical and life saving therapies for children and adults with malignancies and other diseases of the blood and immune systems. It benefits many people locally, nationally and internationally, particularly those who cannot access such regenerative medicine.
Nationally, Australian Rotary Health is a major sponsor of health research and scholarships, donating more than $2m annually. Currently the Fund’s focus is on mental health and we have held mental health education forums within the local community.
Internationally, projects are often undertaken in conjunction with other clubs. We support Rotary’s global PolioPlus program which is eradicating poliomyelitis – 99% of this dreaded paralysis has been eliminated with over 2 billion children immunised throughout the world.
We have built a concrete path from a poor rural village in China to its hill-top primary school. This allowed the village children to reach their school in winter months for the first time.
We have recently funded the construction of toilet blocks in a Nepalese school which will enable adolescent girls to continue their education to matriculation level.
Every year, we sponsor a Rotary Youth Exchange student hosted by a Rotary club in an overseas country. In return we host an inbound overseas student in the homes of our members.
In addition, Rotarians support the Rotary Foundation which provides funding for a wide range of Humanitarian and Educational programs that help support Rotarians’ goals of worldwide understanding, goodwill and peace.
We are very proud of our achievements of providing help where it is most needed in our local, national and global communities.
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