The Rotary Club of Kincumber

• Organises business seminars and provides networking opportunities for local businesses.
• Seeks out funding and raises funds through grants and raffles to support projects locally, nationally and internationally.
• Provides annual leadership awards to schools. $5,000 each year.
  
• Created the shipbuilders memorial and plinths to local shipbuilders along the waterfront at Kincumber. $80,000
• Each year the Shipbuilder Heritage Walk is conducted along the Kincumber to Davistown walkway
• Supports Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children (ROMAC) bringing young children from overseas for life saving or dignity restoring surgery not available in their home country.
• Provides Pride of Workmanship awards to local business and trades people.
• Supports student and young professional exchanges which promote cultural ties between the Central Coast and the rest of the world.
• Kincumber Rotary was heavily involved in the Putt Putt Regatta for over 9 years.
• Supported Dr Andrew Browning’s maternity hospital in Tanzania.  $10,000.
• Wheelchairs for Fiji.  The club is currently working in partnership with Rotary Clubs of West Gosford and Lautoka Fiji to provide 240 wheelchairs for the disabled children and adults in the western region of Fiji.
• Conducts bucket collections after natural disasters 2019 Drought Relief. $1306.50
• Distributes Bowelscan kits through local chemist in an effort to detect early signs of bowel cancer, saving lives.
• Supports Interplast, medical teams who have transformed the lives of thousands.
• Provides assistance to local families in need, helping to make their lives better.
• Provide support to the Kincumber Neighbourhood Centre through a Rotary District Grant $6,000 to fund food parcels and container refrigerator
• Support the local Days for Girls Avoca Beach team – providing washable and reusable sanitary kits to girls and women in developing countries.

Rotary addresses Global Issues

– Eradication of polio

Rotary International has set itself the goal of eradicating polio worldwide. Since 1979 Rotary has contributed more than $1.2 billion and immunised more than 2 billion children. From 2007 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, working with Rotary, has committed $1.9 billion to the fight against polio. Since 1985 polio cases have declined by 99%. In 2013 India was declared polio free.

 – Other Rotary International projects include:

• Alleviation of poverty and hunger and supply of clean water in third world countries.
• Shelter Boxes, which are large emergency relief boxes that each can accommodate and provide clean water for up to 10 displaced people after natural disasters.
• Wheelchairs for disabled children and adults in Cambodia.
• Support for Dr Andrew Browning’s work in hospitals in Tanzania.
• Introducing Rotary Youth Leadership Award  (RYLA) program into Timor Leste.
• Bringing young children from our near neighbours for life-saving or dignity-restoring plastic surgery not available in their home country.  ROMAC Improving the environment
• Advancement of international peace and goodwill through student and professional/business exchange programs
• Rotary International is working on programs to deliver clean water to disadvantaged communities.  This program is an ongoing Rotary International project.

Rotary gives Australians a hand

Australian Rotary Health (ARH) provides funding for research into all aspects of mental health as well as the indigenous health scholarship program. Other health programs help with organ donation, liver cell bank, ovarian cancer, prostate cancer, multiple sclerosis and Bowel cancer.
Rotary also works improving salinity and pollution of waterways.

Kincumber Rotary sponsors a number of youth programs that develop life skills and give young people a helping hand to a better future.

• Rotary Youth Exchange
• Model United Nations Assembly (MUNA)
• Rotary Youth Driver Awareness (RYDA)
• Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment (RYPEN)

Kincumber Rotary raised funds for disasters like the bush fires in our district.

We also encourage young people with annual donation of funds to local schools to encourage leadership skills.

We support Operation Hope – a week-long retreat for children at risk, to build their confidence and self-esteem.

Support for Surf Lifesaving Clubs

Rotaract

Rotaract  is a service club for 18- to 30-year-olds. Based on Rotary’s “service above self” principles, it is an opportunity for young adults to meet socially and volunteer to help the community.
Central Coast Rotaract  NSW is a group of energetic young people who aspire to put their skills into practice and help the community, locally and abroad.

All it takes to make a difference in the world is enthusiasm, a little hard work and a lot of imagination. With Central Coast Rotaract  NSW we funnel that passion into results.

 

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