International Projects
Salam Orphanage & School Bali
Salam is a long-term shelter for children from impoverished families, providing essentials like food, clothing, and education. To enhance self-sufficiency, Salam is establishing a sustainable vegetable production area on steep terrain that requires ground stabilization. This involves reinforcing an existing concrete block wall with steel posts and using site rubble for fill. Raised garden beds will be built with recycled concrete blocks, and gravel will aid water management in the monsoon-prone area.
The project teaches residents how to grow, harvest, and sell fresh food, promoting food security, self-reliance, and breaking the charity mindset. It also offers broader community benefits, such as urban greening, waste recycling, economic revitalization, and education. Once self-sufficiency is achieved, surplus produce sales will fund further garden expansion, ensuring stable and reliable food supplies for future generations.
Rotary Water Project – Lombok, Indonesia
The Rotary Club of Wauchope is implementing a vital water project to support the villages of Montong Sage and Gelogor in Lombok, Indonesia. Currently, villagers must carry water from a source 2km away due to the absence of a pumping system. This project will replace an existing well and install a pump system to draw fresh water from the local river, ensuring a reliable and sustainable water supply.
Rotarians will work closely with the community, providing training on equipment maintenance to ensure long-term sustainability. To raise awareness, the project will be promoted through local and social media, with clear Rotary signage at the pump site. Community involvement is a priority, with locals participating in installation and upkeep. This initiative will significantly improve daily life by eliminating the burden of carrying water and providing consistent access to clean water.
Water Security Pengesan Bali
Rotary has approved a water security project to support Belatungun Village, Selemadeg Barat, Tabanan, benefiting 35 families and over 80 people. Due to the challenging terrain, the project requires a RAM-style pump capable of transporting water uphill over 12 miles. Water will be stored in two holding tanks, allowing gravity-fed distribution throughout the village.
The total cost is estimated at $4,850. Paul Pollett of the Rotary Club of Wauchope is a qualified builder with extensive humanitarian experience in Bali. He will manage the project on-site. The pump, designed by an Australian expert formerly with World Vision, is highly reliable and low-maintenance, with only two rubber seals requiring periodic replacement.
This initiative will provide a sustainable, long-term water solution for the village, significantly improving daily life.
Kampala, Uganda - Support for Young Mothers
A joint project of the Rotary Club of Wauchope and Kampala Kawempe, Hope for Young Mothers is partnering with community leaders and other organisations, to improve the employability and life skills of young mothers.
A community assessment taken in the slum area of Kawempe identified that 64 per cent of the population are youth and 69 per cent are girls. Of these girls, 82 per cent are teenage mothers, 63 per cent are regarded illiterate, 52 per cent are school dropouts, and 68 per cent are unemployed. Many young girls earn income through prostitution. They are the most vulnerable group in the community.
So far, 100 young girls have been trained. Twenty-two have been recruited by businesses in the community and 38 girls are running their own income generating businesses.
The project has improved the lives of attendees, who are now employed and can sustain themselves and their children.
Rotary Youth Exchange Australia
Rotary Youth Exchange Australia provides an opportunity of a lifetime for Australian high school students to live & study abroad.
They spend up to 12 months living and studying in a foreign country, learning a lot about themself and the culture of their adopted host families.
An amazing, life-changing experience awaits.
Rotary Youth Exchange provides a unique opportunity to experience first-hand the many cultures of a different country and a new way of life.
Often, they will make life-long friendships with the families, Rotarians and fellow Exchange students they meet, helping to build goodwill and understanding between countries.
It's an amazing, life-changing experience.
Ending Polio
Rotary has been working to eradicate polio for more than 35 years. Our goal of ridding the world of this disease is closer than ever.
As a founding partner of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, we've reduced polio cases by 99.9 percent since our first project to vaccinate children in the Philippines in 1979.
Rotary members have contributed more than $2.1 billion and countless volunteer hours to protect nearly 3 billion children in 122 countries from this paralyzing disease. Rotary’s advocacy efforts have played a role in decisions by governments to contribute more than $10 billion to the effort.
Today, polio remains endemic only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. But it’s crucial to continue working to keep other countries polio-free. If all eradication efforts stopped today, within 10 years, polio could paralyze as many as 200,000 children each year.
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