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District 9815 held their Changeover function on Saturday evening at the Pakenham Racecourse.
Members Peter and Linda O'Brien, Ian Ballantine and Helen Parker along with 2025-26 Club President, Grant Perry were in attendance.
Also there was Nicky Chung (member of RC Wonthaggi), who will be familiar to Club members as was Sandringham member and friend of our Club, Bob Richards.
 
It was great to see our Club well represented. If you click on Read more, you will find a couple of photos from the evening. A full Album can be found here.
This article has been taken from the RI site here. By Etelka Lehoczky 
Final day of 2025 Rotary International Convention highlighted current and future Rotary leaders
The 2025 Rotary International Convention in Calgary, Canada, concluded in a spirit of fellowship and rejuvenation. Addressing the event’s closing general session, Rotary International President Stephanie A. Urchick urged members to recognize the power of their relationships.
This article has been taken from the RI site here. By Etelka Lehoczky 

RI’s new president talks about his top Rotary moments, his goals as president, and his love of olive oil and opera

Francesco Arezzo was sitting with a friend at his district conference when he received a call, asking him to leave the room and join a Zoom meeting with the Rotary International Board of Directors. A few minutes later, Arezzo learned that he’d been chosen as RI president for 2025-26, the third Italian and the first from southern Italy to lead the global membership organization. Since the news hadn’t been officially announced, he couldn’t tell anyone. But soon, he noticed phones coming out all over the room.
 

Linda O'Brien chaired today's meeting at Aila once again - for our second meeting at this venue during the current school holidays.  Another lovely breakfast was enjoyed by all despite the very crisp and cool morning.   These informal meetings away from Cilantro are very enjoyable and provide great opportunities to catch up with our club members and chat about anything and everything.  
Every day mothers risk their lives giving birth and millions of children die each year from treatable, preventable causes. At least 7 million children under the age of five die each year due to malnutrition, poor health care, and inadequate sanitation. To help reduce this rate, we provide immunizations and antibiotics to babies, improve access to essential medical services, and support trained healthcare providers for mothers and their children. Your Rotary projects ensure sustainability by empowering the local community to take ownership of healthcare training programs. And there is more.....
The Rotary International theme for the 2025-26 Rotary year is "Unite for Good".
This theme emphasizes using human connection to create positive change and encourage unity in a world that can be divided. It aligns with Rotary's Action Plan and encourages members to collaborate on service projects and build global impact by uniting people of all backgrounds. 
 
One of the most important things we can do to tell our Rotary stories in an effective, compelling way is to make sure we all use consistent and unified messaging. You can use the president's message for 2025-26, Unite for Good, to inspire members, participants, and the public with an idea that aligns with our Action Plan and calls on us to work together. Using the presidential message in your club and district communications helps to convey Rotary’s global impact and create stronger recognition of Rotary’s name in our communities and with potential service partners. It can help people understand who we are and what we do and might even inspire them to join us.
Rotary International is an international service organisation whose stated human rights purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace around the world.
We provide service to others, promote integrity, and advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace through our fellowship of business, professional, and community leaders.
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Jul 14, 2025
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Founded in 1977, it has so far raised over $2m which has been spent in the local community and on humanitarian projects overseas.
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