Thank you for visiting Rotary Albert Park's website.
Rotary Albert Park (part of Rotary International) is a group of neighbours, friends, and community leaders providing humanitarian service, encouraging high ethical standards in all pursuits and helping build goodwill and peace locally and worldwide. Our club was established in 1992 and has a long history of service. We have a membership of about 40 with a 50:50 gender balance.
Join us for Dinner where we can introduce you to the Club & its members, and answer any questions you may have about membership. For more information, contact us at any time.
We also have a Facebook Group and share many of our upcoming events there.
Many of our meetings are recorded and available on our YouTube channel.
Interested in volunteering in and around the City of Port Philip? We're always looking for help! Register your details here.
Bay St Book Stall - 9th & 10th December
We will be running a stall in front of the Holy Trinity Church on Bay Street next Friday amd Saturday. 9th & 10th December. There are 3 ships in port over that weekend.
RAP Book Fair - Saturday, 17th December
Albert Park College
Ken will need assistance to hand out leaflets at Gasworks Park promoting the book fair at the college, needing one person from 8am-9am then same each hour until 12pm-1pm
The Book Fair is designed to coincide with Gas Works so it is essential that he has helpers.
Last year the Book Fair raised $4,000 plus and I have set $5,000 as this years target
“A Taste of Africa @ Werribee Open Range Zoo” - Saturday, 11th February
Save the date for this fundraising event to benefit the Kyebe Project & UWEC (Ugandan wildlife education centre, the partner zoo with Werribee zoo).
Details TBA
For more on the project, and to donate, go to https://www.kyebeuganda.org.au/ Donations above $2 tax deductable in Australia
Kyebe Maternity Clinic Update - December 2022
The renovation and re-establishment of the Kyebe Maternity Clinic is a project of Rotary Albert Park. The clinic is located in the Kyebe Sub-County, approximately 180km south of Kampala, Uganda. The facility was established in the 1950's to meet the medical needs of the local community.
Albert Park Members are working with the Rotary Club od Gaba, which has produced an introductory video of the project. They aim to improve the facility by concentrating mainly on the maternity ward, which lacks most of the basic requirements. There is a need to fix windows, doors, the roof, ceilung, verandah and water harvesting system at the ward, as well as eventually re-equipping the labour unit. These renovations will not only benefit mothers and babies. but also the midwives.
The closest alternative facility is around 50km away, and is often inaccessable by road due to weather and poor conditions. Recently, the entire area was cut off for two months due to floods - making the renovation of the facility a critical need for the health and well-being of the local community.
Report On Trip to Maubisse November 2022
After a delay of two years due to COVID, Phil Hill was able to take a trip to Timor Leste to review the work of the Solar Smiles Dental Charity there.
To read the report, click on the picture at left
Rotary Albert Park supports Solar Smiles Dental Charity providing free preventative and relief of pain dentistry by taking Australian dental teams to Cambodia and Timor Leste, partnering with local dental professionals using their innovative Solar Powered Backpack dental chairs.
For further information, go to https://www.solarsmilesdentalcharity.com/
Rotary Park - St Kilda
After some time in planning, combined with delays from COVID, the Rotary Park on the foreshore of St Kilda, has reopened.
It is exciting to see the work that has been done and the facility being used.
We are thrilled to inform you that our global grant application (GG25234199) for funding to provide training to Palestinian and Israeli physicians to treat trauma patients, submitted by the Rotary E-Club of District 7610 (Northern Virginia) and the Rotary Club of Holon (District 2490 Israel), has been approved by The Rotary Foundation and The Rotary Foundation Canada. The award is in the amount of US$ 85,350.00. Many thanks to you and your club members for your support.
A great video from Alfred Health, one of the amazing projects we support! Thanks to everyone in the club who've helped out, and continue to help in the future. https://youtu.be/iItCCN_T3X4
Thirty five aged homeless and socially insecure residents live in Port Melbourne at Wintringham Hostel. They pay 85% of their pension to live in the facility and struggle financially with hygiene products, clothes and some small items of furniture for their rooms. This club project will be filling the needs directly of the residents through a strategic partnership with Wintringham management.
Wintringham is a specialised welfare company that provides housing and care to elderly, frail men and women. The sole motivating philosophy at Wintringham is that of social justice. For more information, go to (here) 
We have recently donated some lounge chairs to the hostel, see right
If you would like to help with this project, go to 
Donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia.
Donations above $2 are tax deductible in Australia.
Women over 50 are the fastest growing group of people experiencing housing instability in Australia – often as a result of pay inequity, little to no superannuation or savings, divorce, domestic and family violence and time taken as unpaid carers. Adequate supply of social housing and affordable housing remains an enduring issue across Australia. Currently there are more than 40,000 applicants for social housing, on the Victorian Housing Register alone.
The Lakehouse is Melbourne's first Pop Up Shelter for women in need of temporary housing. For the Study report, go to (here)
Presentation of donation to One Ball. For more photos, go to (here)
OneBall is a free community program designed for young people aged between 8-18 years. The program provides opportunities for young people from CALD (culturally and linguistically diverse) backgrounds across Melbourne to play soccer in a social setting and encourages them to:
- be fit and active, and to enhance both their physical and psychological health and wellbeing
- develop positive cross-cultural relationships with others, and
- feel more connected and empowered to make a positive contribution to their community.
Presentation of donation to Geoff Amor to support Orange Sky Laundry, see https://orangesky.org.au/where-we-are/melbourne/
The shortage of emergency response vehicles is a serious problem being faced in the Western Cape, South Africa, with the numerous fires that need to be contended with. The lack of vehicles often leads to emergency services taking up to 40 minutes to arrive at disaster scenes, especially in more remote areas. It goes without saying that the vital lost time can literally mean the difference between life and death. With the help of Rotary Albert Park, The Rotary Club of Newlands were able to donate a multipurpose vehicle to the Emergency Volunteer Services (EVS).
Below are some stories and video of the project:
Book Stalls at Gasworks Farmers' Market and Bay Street
Rotary Albert Park runs a book recycling project where it collects books from local libraries and from direct donations, sort, redistributes and sell them in various ways (including on-line) to benefit the community. On the third Saturday of each month at the Farmers Market at Gasworks Park (weather permitting) we have a wide selection of these recycled books for sale. We are located at the rear of Gasworks Cafe, 21 Graham Street, Albert Park.
We also hold a book store on Saturdays in front of the Holy Trinity Church on Bay Street.
Cash and Eftpos available
For more information on our book recycling project, go to (here)
Other Media Pages
The club is also on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter & Instagram. There are often additional posts entered by members and by other clubs, and it is a great way to get notified of events and functions.
