Rotary Caroline Springs Bulletin Issue (Aug 2023) (Aug. 07, 2023)

Community Mental Focus

Dear Community Champions,

International Men's Day falls on the 19 November 2023. Rotary Caroline Springs is looking for local champions who support the health and wellbeing of men and boys. We are holding a fundraising awards dinner on the 17 Nov 2023 at The Club, 1312 Western Highway, Caroline Springs where nominating organisations will have the opportunity to speak about why their champion was chosen. The organisation's champion can be any gender.

The awards dinner night will focus on the theme "Healthy Men, Healthy World", in line with the Australian Men's Health Forum for International Men's Day. On the night, community groups and sponsors can showcase the work of their organisation, and how they are helping to raise awareness of health for men and boys in our community and beyond. The net funds raised during the event will be donated to a charity working for the betterment of Men's health.

To find out more, get in touch with Ronald on 0403821959 or email him at rotarycarolinesprings@gmail.com

BusyFeet featured in Star News Weekly

Recently BusyFeet Melton was featured in the 8 Aug in Star News Weekly. BusyFeet is a dance and movement activity for children with intellectual and physical disabilities, aged 6 to16 years. The participants will experience happiness, and develop more self confidence, through the movement of dance. This program provides these kids great enjoyment and as we all know eneryone likes to dance and sing.

They are currently dancing at Brookside Community Centre, 17 Federation Way, Caroline Springs at 10.45 for registration, thereafter from 11am to 12 pm for dance.

If you know of any children or volunteers who would like to join us please contact Nilda Escalante.
Contact: Nilda - 0438594929
BusyfeetMelton@hotmail.com

Rotary Caroline Springs in Community news

Always good to have your club featured in the local newspapers. In the Aug 23 Caroline Springs Community news and in the Star Weekly our changeover was featured with the vision of incoming President Vijay Sursala for our Club. The new theme for the year is Create Hope in the World as we move towards eradicating Polio. This being only one of the many programs of Rotary International.

Rotary Caroline Springs Changeover 2023

On Friday 21 July Rotary Caroline Springs had their changeover at the Club Caroline Springs, where outgoing President Ronald Moss handed over to President Elect Vijay Susarla. Vijay Susarla will be the President of Rotary Caroline Springs (RCS) in 2023-2024. We celebrated the year that was 2022-2023 and wished Vijay Susarla all the best in his year 2023-2024. It was a well attended celebration of the year where we "Imagine" what Rotary could do to the new theme for 2023-2024, "Create Hope in the World." As a local community service organisation RCS celebration was attended by local MP Steve McGhie, local councillors - Mayor Lara Carli, Deputy Mayor Julie Shannon, Cr Steve Abboushi and Cr Bob Turner and esteemed guests. Thank you to everyone for being a part of our celebration.

To find out more about Rotary and what we do, email us at rotarycarolinesprings@gmail.com

Ryan Baker (CFA) - Guest Speaker

At the meeting on 26 July we had our guest speaker from the CFA Ryan Baker (Community Safety Coordinator) join us to tell us a little about the Carolines Springs CFA and the work that they do within the community. Little did we know that Caroline Springs is now home to 75,000 residents and rising. Within 5 years this is expected to grow by another 30,000 residents at least. The brigade comprising of some 40 volunteers, more is needed, cover an area of 75 square kilometres working in conjunction with Fire Rescue Victoria. Their response time is around 4 minutes and on scene a minute later. What plays a big part of what the CFA does, is not only responding to emergencies but education through schools, visits and just their general presence within the community. We are grateful to have these amazing men and women within our community keeping us safe. Thank you Ryan for keeping us informed. Let's give a round of applause to our amazing volunteers.

The empty chairs are for new members.

About Rotary International

Rotary International 1.4 million-member organization started with the vision of one man—Paul P. Harris. The Chicago attorney formed one of the world’s first service organizations, the Rotary Club of Chicago, on 23 February 1905 as a place where professionals with diverse backgrounds could exchange ideas and form meaningful, lifelong friendships. Rotary’s name came from the group’s early practice of rotating meetings among the offices of each member.

Rotary of Caroline Springs part of this amazing nternational community is a relatively new club but we are here as part of your community in Caroline Springs. If you have a project come and talk with us, better yet speak at one of our meetings to see how we can collaborate with one another to serve this community and together we can connect.

In May 2023 Rotarians from around the world gathered on this beautiful city of Melbourne at the Rotary International Convention 2023 (RICON). The next Convention will be in vibrant Singapore from May 25-29 2024. We are looking forward to welcoming all Rotarians from around the world.

Rotary Safe Families

Rotary SAFE Families has had our Guide to Prevention of Family Abuse in Australia translated into 6 different languages so far. The latest release is a video on Rotary Safe Families Inclusive Communities Initiative - Swahili. Click on the photo to view the video.

More resources in other languages can be found online at www.rotarysafefamilies.org.au

The guides below are for the use of Rotary Clubs or the public to download and print as appropriate.

They will assist our more recent Australians to read and be informed of Australian law and models to prevent abuse in families. This includes abuse to women, men, children and our elderly.

So far, Rotary SAFE Families have translations into Dari, Hindi, Swahili, Mandarin, Farsi and Greek. We hope to have other translations in the future. We thank our translators for their generosity in volunteering their time and skills at no cost to SAFE Families.