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 District 9780 incorporates 60 clubs and extends from Drysdale in central south Victoria up to Swan Hill in the far north of Victoria and across to Millicent in south east South Australia.
The two clubs of Queenscliffe and Apollo Bay - Otways will be added to map and other various documents as soon as possible.
District Governor Chris and Christine Sims
2009-2010
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A video produced by the Rotary Club of Lane Cove, NSW, Australia featuring renowned Australian newsreader Roger Climpson, himself a Rotarian. Click here to view.
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Inaugural Rotary Club of Millicent Photographic Art Exhibition
Very good prize money is available in five different categories. Closing Date for entry forms is 5th December 2009. Entry forms and information can be obtained by clicking here. Entry forms can also be obtained by mail from: The Rotary Club of Millicent PO Box 277 Millicent SA 5280 More... |
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| The Prime Minister invites all Australians to become DonateLife™ families. Demonstrating his ongoing commitment to the Australian Government's $151.1 million World's Best Practice Reform Package on Organ and Tissue Donation for Transplantation, the Prime Minister the Hon Kevin Rudd MP today launched the DonateLife™ Network and with his family became Australia's first DonateLife™ Family. More... |
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'Walk in Safety': Clearance of Land Mines in Cambodia.
In 2005 the Rotary Club of Geelong East adopted 'Walk in Safety', a project dedicated to the clearance of land mines in Cambodia where as many as 40,000 people have lost limbs, and agricultural land has been made inaccessible due to unexploded mines.
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 Donations In Kind (DIK) is a program whereby Rotarians and Rotary Clubs source surplus goods and products within Australia that have no further use here. These goods however, are valuable to those in needy countries. A central co-ordination committee stores, packs and dispatches the goods to needy countries. There are currently four DIK storage depots in the greater Melbourne Metropolitan area located at Essendon Airport, Footscray, Pakenham and Geelong. Separate facilities are located in Tasmania in Hobart and Launceston. More... |
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 The Kerang and Warrnambool , Port Fairy , & Portland Rotary Clubs have combined once again bringing a bit of fun and excitement, with an all expences paid AFL Footy Trips. Primary School age Children between Grade 3 & Grade 6 of the Gannawarra Shire , local to Kerang, have been selected for the first game. More... |
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 This Rotary year, our District will be sending a Team to District 4520 in Brazil in April 2010. Early in this calendar year, information regarding this exchange was sent to all Clubs, asking for nominations for both Team Leader positions and Team Member positions. More... |
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Just over half of our District Clubs supported applications for clean water projects developed on behalf of Governor Ted and all were approved for funding by The Rotary Foundation. The one in Zambia has been completed and the three in India are well under way. All four projects are based at secondary colleges with approximatey 1,500 students each.
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 A tent city to house more than 300 homeless people has been put up in the village of Assergi, close to the epicentre of the earthquake in central Italy. "The village is in the mountains where the temperature falls below zero at night," said ShelterBox Response Team (SRT) volunteer John Diksa. More... |
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| The NYSF has a new web site up and running. Click here to visit. We have a 3rd session, in Perth, and therefore 7 extra places for District 9780 - and encourage Rotarians to look at the website. More... |
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| Due to the tremendous support we have had over the past couple of years, the volunteers require time to service the the computers we have in our store. As a consequence we would ask that you do NOT deliver any computers (except laptops) to DIK for the next 12 months. More... |
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 The Rotary Foundation's Group Study Exchange program continues to be one of this District's more popular activities. Follow the link and see both teams blog sites and follow their adventures. More... |
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Rotary clubs take on $100 million challenge from the Gates Foundation
Rotary clubs here and around the world are determined to do whatever it takes to achieve a world free of the crippling disease polio. A major part of that effort is to raise $100 million to match a challenge grant in the same amount from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. More... |
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 The following press release announcing that the contract has been signed by NZAID with R.C Lautoka for the first tranche of N.Z Government funds to enable the 3H grant project plans to be finalized ready for commencement of the Infrastructure for the new K2 village in Fiji. More... |
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| Each club must keep their information up to date in this district web portal. This provides a central database of our clubs, district committees and rotarians. More... |
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A story on the District Web Portal has 2 parts - a summary (what you are reading and has a limit of 500 characters).
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