International projects & contributions

Interplast

Along with the other seven Rotary Clubs on the Mornington Peninsula, we have funded an Interplast Team to Tonga and continue to support ongoing local training for their medical staff. The Interplast team consists of specialist doctors and nurses who both conduct and train local doctors in reconstructive surgery. More at interplast.org.au.

Disaster Relief

We contributed funds to both flood relief in Australia and the victims of the Ukraine war, via our Rotary District Disaster Fund.

Rotary International Foundation

Each year we make a significant financial contribution to the Rotary Foundation for the elimination of polio in the world, and its work across its seven areas of humanitarian support. Since the early 1980s when there were over 300,000 cases of disabling polio disease in the world, we are now down to a handful — thanks to this Rotary-led project.

We also contribute annually to the operational costs of the Rotary Warehouse in Footscray, which collects Australian goods suitable for re-use in developing countries. Medical and educational items are especially valued.

In 2024 we also contributed to the purchase of tablets for a school in Bali.