Dandelion WA sent 15,000 backpacks to rural disadvantaged kids

Grand Carers WA day out

Українське свято Різдва 2024

Bowls Day 2023

Remembrance Day service

Remembrance Day exhibition

"My Home" finished

Shower Truck at No Limits

Rotary International Convention - Melbourne 2023

"My Home" Rotary Opening

Kampong Speu Hospital Wing Opens

"My Home" under construction

Waitangi Day Celebrations

Bowling day fundraiser

FASD fundraiser with Nic Naitanui

Yayasan Soleman Bali event at Central Park

Waitangi Day Haka

Packed container for Cambodia

Beds in use in Cambodia hospital

Cambodia Award Presentation

Christmas in July 2018

FASD Launch 14 June 2017

Bohemia Rhapsody fundraiser

Colin Moore Community Resource Centre

Are you an established professional who wants to make positive changes in your community and the world? Our club members are dedicated people who share a passion for community service and friendship. Becoming a Rotarian connects you with a diverse group who share your drive to give back.

No Limits Perth

No Limits Perth is a local charity doing amazing work in supporting less fortunate members of our community. The organisation is run entirely by volunteers out of a small warehouse in Wangara where they:

provide recycled furniture to people in need;
run a school breakfast program;
provide nutritious lunches and dinners to 3 schools;
provide a laundry van to wash clothes for school children and provide new underwear where the existing items are damaged or too dirty;
provide back to school backpacks and stationary packs for school children; and
provide emergency packs, kitchen starter packs and cleaning packs to those in need.

Rotary funds Street Doctor Service is Northern Suburbs

Osborne Park Rotary, together with Karrinyup and Scarborough Rotary Clubs have arranged with Black Swan Health to provide a Street Doctor service in Mirrabooka every week for the next three years. The service will be funded jointly by the Rotary Clubs.

The service will be provided by Black Swan Health, who have been delivering the Street Doctor service for 20 years, starting in Fremantle, with several clinics in the southern Perth suburbs. There are no clinics north of the river, this will be the first.

The Black Swan Health Street Doctor currently operates 14 clinics per week south of the river, each running for 3 hours. They maintain a regular schedule so that attendees know when and where to find them. Word of mouth is used as the main marketing medium, many repeat clients use this as their regular medical service.

"My Home" complete and occupied.

Eighteen homes built by “My Home” in North Fremantle were completed in June 2023 and a delighted group of homeless older women moved in over the next few months. Rotary gave every new resident a welcome pack which included food and toiletries.

“My Home” is a local not-for-profit organisation which is building small affordable homes for people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. They are using a new housing development model in WA using a public private partnership system.

State government, Local governments and Church bodies make land available for free; corporate Australia funds construction of the houses; Rotary furnishes and equips the houses; and a community housing provider (CHP) manages the property and the tenants.

The first “My Home” housing development was completed in North Fremantle in June 2023. The homes are for women over 55, who are the fastest growing group of people who are homeless in Australia. These women have found themselves in this situation for a number of reasons. Often, they cannot find work because of their age, they have lost confidence in re-entering the workforce after being a stay-at-home mum or feel they are too old to retrain. They have negligible superannuation, no assets and without a partner.

Українське свято Різдва 2024

Our Club, in conjunction with the Karrinyup Rotary, hosted another Christmas Party for the Ukraine Refugees living in Perth. The event was opened with a prayer from Vasyl Olevych, the Father from the Ukrainian Orthodox church of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker. The party, held on 14 January, was a great success, with 150 people attending.

The entertainment commenced with a modern play referencing the current situation, which was performed by the group known as "Vertep By Grown-ups". This recently formed group consists mostly of displaced Ukrainians, with members ranging in age from 10 to 50, despite the group's name suggesting it is for adults.

Vertep holds significant importance in Ukrainian culture as a Christmas celebration, and in Perth, they presented a modernized rendition of it. The play's script, written by Yuriy Safronov from St. Louis, USA, was crafted specifically for the Perth Ukrainian Community and is now also performed in the USA. The story revolves around the conflict of Evil vs Good, with characters representing contemporary issues in Ukraine's war. King Herod's alliance with Moscow is mentioned, and Mother Ukraine emphasizes the protection of the people and children of Ukraine.

Homelessness "Eye Contact" in Canberra

A team from Rotary in WA travelled to Canberra to present the Eye Contact exhibition to the members of Parliament in Australian Parliament House on International Womens Day, 8^th March, in order to get the Federal Government to increase their support for homeless people and in particular older homeless women. Over 49,000 women in Australia face homelessness every night - 41% of these as a result of family violence. Australia has the third highest rate of homelessness in OECD countries. Women over 55 are the fastest growing homeless cohort due to disrupted work lives and an increasingly unaffordable private rental market.

Senator Linda Reynolds opened the event, thanked Rotary for hosting it and introduced Tara Sherwood who spoke on behalf of Rotary. Tara spoke of Rotary's projects to assist homeless people including Socks in the City, Common Ground, "My Home" and Passages. She highlighted how many people are only a few steps away from homelessness. For example, someone could have a good job and rental house but receive a 30 day notice terminating their tenancy and not be able to find a new home in 30 days. With vacancy rates being under 1% in many cities it is extremely difficult for everyone to find housing, and even more so for single parents and low income earners.

Tara introduced David Pearson, the keynote speaker and CEO of the Australian Alliance to End Homelessness, who highlighted the personal costs of homelessness and stress caused by decreasing housing affordability, in order to encourage the Parliamentarians to amplify their efforts to address these issues and increase funding for social housing. Mr Pearson further said that homelessness was a growing issue Australia-wide and Australians were becoming increasingly de-sensitised to people living and dying on the streets of our cities and communities. 'This exhibition provides an important opportunity to raise awareness among Parliamentarians that it doesn’t need to be this way. Around the world, there are growing numbers of communities that are ending this type of homelessness and we should seek to do that in Australia too.’

Following David’s address, Hon Patrick Gorman, MP and Hon Michael Sukkar, MP addressed the group and confirmed their commitment to the cause. Approximately 50 people attended the event including about 25 Members of Parliament, and guests from St Vincent de Paul Society, Catholic Care, Uniting Care Australia and the Rotary Club of Murrumbidgee.

Kampong Speu Hospital Wing Opens

The Kampong Speu Referral Hospital, Chris Keenan Surgical Complex, was officially opened on Wednesday 23 November 2022 by the Cambodian Director of the Health Department, Dr Hok Kry, & the Director of the Kampong Speu Referral Hospital, Dr Chheng Sovathh and Mr Chris Keenan the principal benefactor. The provision of the theatres to this hospital will greatly benefit the local Cambodian community.

The instigators of the project were Dr Meng Sok & Dr Tim Keenan. Kampong Speu is Sok’s hometown, and it meant a lot to Sok to be able to give back. Osborne Park Rotary opened a RAWCS Tax Deductible Account and with SOK ensured all monies transferred were correctly paid for work done. Also in attendance were Dr Tim Keenan, Dr Peter Lugg, Dr Sok Meng, Pip Asphar and Debra Waters from the Rotary Club of Osborne Park and Dr Peter Lugg from the Rotary Club of Hawthorn in Victoria. Dr Tim’s brother Shane Keenan and his sister Jackie Hocking were in attendance.