Past President Gabby is also the Secretary of Eastern Emergency Relief Network (EERN). She presented the history of EERN which was founded in 1995. EERN procures and supplies its member welfare agencies and their clients with furniture, whitegoods, bedding, nonperishable food free of charge. Most clients are from Family and Domestic Violence situations, refugees, homelessness due to illness and/or financially destitute.

After the presentation, Glenys took a photo of Gabby with Ian A, a former President of EERN.

Here is a link to the July 2025 Newsletter.

Ryda is a youth program of Road Safety Education Limited (RSE).  RSE is a not for profit and leading learning organisation operating throughout Australia and New Zealand, committed to creating communities free from road deaths and injury (our vision) through the provision of engaging, interactive and personalised learning for youth (our mission).

Ryda is a whole school approach partnership with Rotary which supports teachers on the journey as they provide their students with the tools and understanding they need to see themselves as active, responsible road citizens.  Ryda features a highly engaging and memorable one-day workshop which front-loads students’ understanding of road safety and gives them the tools, habits and motivation to take action and stay safe on our roads as both drivers and passengers throughout their lives.

Watch this short video from RSE for a summary of Ryda's statistics over the past 12 months.

This week we had the pleasure of harvesting another playground. This one from the Halidon Close Playground in St Helena, courtesy of the Banyule Council.

Thanks to Ian Armstrong, Peter Koens, Graeme Moorfoot Bob Davis and Harvey Lane. And a special thank you to the contractor (Safe Play) for their help and to Phil and Steve for bring the EERN truck and helping load, transport and unload the playground at Kilsyth South.

I am currently working to arrange a shipment of playgrounds to an overseas location, Watch this space for details.
 

We have developed a newsletter that we hope will come out every couple of months to highlight the work of all the Rotary clubs we have partnered with.
I am hoping you can send it out to members or put it in your new (and fabulous) bulletin.

Kind regards

Patricia Wilson (she/her)
Community Employment Partnerships Manager

 

The 2025 Whitehorse Excellence in Business Awards Nominations are now open until Thursday 31st August.

If you are interested in:

• Nominating a business
• Attending the Gala Diner on Friday 24^th October
• Being a Category judge

Please contact Gabby.

The Club will be sponsoring the category: Retail Business Award - A business that provides a retail product/service to consumers from a business location.