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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Mount Martha. We are a group of men and women from all walks of life working together on projects locally and internationally to make the world a better place. If you would like to give back to your community in some small way, expand your network, experience personal development and make new friends along the way we invite you to a cost free, no obligation "test drive".

Come and check us out.

Roger Skipsey – President

The Rotary Club of Mount Martha meetings is one of the most enjoyable things about being in Rotary. Nice company and conversations as well as all the nitty-gritty Rotary stuff thrown in for good measure.

Unfortunately, nature has played a winning hand and shut our meeting schedule down for a while. In the meantime, we are trying out our online communication skills to beat COVID 19 and keep us all ready to do some amazing things in the world once this dilemma has abated.

Who knows how long that will be, but rest assured we are all still working away to make the world a better place down the track!

Stay tuned!

If you are interested in Rotary, what it does and how it works, now is the perfect time to find out!

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Supporting Education & Literacy

More than 775 million people over the age of 15 are illiterate. That’s 17 percent of the world’s adult population.

Our goal is to strengthen the capacity of communities to support basic education and literacy, reduce gender disparity in education, and increase adult literacy. We support education for all children and literacy for children and adults.

https://www.rotary.org/en/our-causes/supporting-education

Help for those doing it tough

Mornington Community Information and Support Centre has a supply of free reusable and single-use masks for those struggling amid the tougher COVID-19 restrictions.

This has come about after Mount Martha Rotary’s Roger Skipsey and Mount Martha Boomerang Bags’ Robyn Ruhl came together and arranged to provide the centre with 100 reusable masks.

New additions for Mornington Park Primary School

The club has undertaken a number of projects at the Mornington Park Primary School such as landscaping, building minor works and certain maintenance/improvement tasks, to assist schools channelling funds into programs for needy children

Supporting the environment becomes a new area of focus

The Rotary Foundation Trustees and Rotary International Board of Directors have both unanimously approved adding a new area of focus: supporting the environment.

More than $18 million in Foundation global grant funding has been allocated to environment-related projects over the past five years. Creating a distinct area of focus to support the environment will give Rotary members even more ways to bring about positive change in the world and increase our impact.

Supporting the environment becomes Rotary's seventh area of focus, which are categories of service activities supported by global grants. It joins peacebuilding and conflict prevention; disease prevention and treatment; water, sanitation, and hygiene; maternal and child health; basic education and literacy; and community economic development. https://www.rotary.org/en/supporting-environment-becomes-new-area-focus

Repurposing play equipment

Rotarians from the Mount Martha, Frankston North, & Mt Eliza Clubs joined forces to dismantle some commercial grade playground equipment from a private residence in Mt Eliza for transport to Sri Lanka.

Initiated in Victoria through several Rotary Clubs, the Recycled Playgrounds Program has been responsible for shipping thirty-eight (38) recycled playgrounds to countries where these types of children’s play equipment are not freely available.

Mount Martha has been actively involved in this program since early 2019 in the administration, assessment, collection, repair, storage and finally the shipment of many recycled playgrounds to overseas Rotary Clubs for reinstallation in a location. Already playgrounds have been shipped to Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Papua New Guinea.

Rotary sleeps rough for homeless

Mt Martha Rotarians slept rough in their cars, in their tents, on their couches to help the homeless on the Peninsula.
We normally support Fusions Sleep In Your Car event by sleeping in our cars and running a bbq at Mornington Park but this year the event was not being run because of Coronavirus so we held a ‘virtual’ event.
This year, the club raised $1690.

All sponsorship donations will aid Fusion Mornington Peninsula. Sleep in Your Car 2020 has currently raised $25,325.

Rotary needs people like you to make a difference.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a student, a professional, a stay at home parent, a teacher, a doctor, a tradie or a farmer. We need young and old, retailers, gardeners, athletes, social workers, artists, grandparents and retirees too. If you have something you care about, and want to make a difference in your community, seek out Rotary!

Despite what you may have heard, you don't have to make a commitment to weekly meetings. We're happy to take any help you can give! For some people that means occasionally turning a sausage at a fundraising BBQ, but for others that means planning major projects or travelling overseas to participate in humanitarian aid programs.

Rotary has something for everyone. Please get in touch and find out more. Getting involved with Rotary could be the best thing you ever do!

Please contact our club to find out more.

History - new leader for Rotary International

History - The first woman to be named Rotary World President. Jennifer E. Jones, a member of the Rotary Club of Windsor-Roseland, Ontario, Canada, has been nominated to become Rotary International’s president for 2022-23, a groundbreaking selection that will make her the first woman to hold that office in the organization’s 115-year history. https://www.rotary.org/en/jennifer-e-jones-makes-history-becomes-first-woman-named-rotary-president-nominee

Volunteering Opportunities with Rotary

Rotarians are people who display leadership in their business, professional and/or community lives and who strive to make the world a better place through practical efforts. Rotarians seek out opportunities for service, devise solutions, design solution delivery, and deliver solutions. Solving real problems takes real commitment and vision. Rotarians make things happen. Volunteers are involved, but Rotarians are committed. It is a much more challenging task to recruit a Rotarian than to recruit a volunteer. Rotary connects leaders to make positive change.