About Our Club
Whyalla

We meet In Person
Tuesdays at 6:30 PM
Comfort Inn Whyalla
99 Playford Avenue
Whyalla , SA 5600
Australia
Phone:
410 313 271
December 2024
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Paul Harris Fellows
Jack Clayton 1980
Rowley Fenwick 2005
Hugo Ehrke 1983
Keith Wilson 2008
Bert Holds 1983
Perry Eden 2008
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Rob Walton 2008
Jack Walker 1986
Tim Clements 2009
Bill Cruickshank 1990
Alistair Stevenson 2010
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Clinton Garrett 2011
Glen Eden PDG 1992 
Soto Stuppos 2012
Syd Harvie 1996
Jack Odgers 2014
Ron Heading 1998
Yari Peltonen 2016
John Holds 2000
Kerre Willsher 2017 +9
Brian Moodie 2002 +1
Jane Owens 2017 +1
Vin Higgins 2002 
Michele Hart 2017
John Lewis 2002
John Cagney 2021
Keith Sichler 2003 +2
David Owens 2022
Peter Reid 2004 Bob Norman 2022
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December Is Disease Prevention and Treatment Month

We believe good health care is everyone’s right. Yet 400 million people in the world can’t afford or don’t have access to basic health care.

Disease results in misery, pain, and poverty for millions of people worldwide. That’s why treating and preventing disease is so important to us. We lead efforts both large and small. We set up temporary clinics, blood donation centers, and training facilities in underserved communities struggling with outbreaks and healthcare access. We design and build infrastructure that allows doctors, patients, and governments to work together.

Our members combat diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, Alzheimer’s, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, and polio. Prevention is important, which is why we also focus on health education and bringing people routine hearing, vision, and dental care.

 

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October is Community and Economic Development Month

Nearly 800 million people live on less than $1.90 a day.
Rotary members are passionate about providing sustainable solutions to poverty.

Our members and our foundation work to strengthen local entrepreneurs and community leaders, particularly women, in impoverished communities.
We provide training and access to well-paying jobs and financial management institutions.

Our impact on local economies

Rotary members train people to become resources for their community, offering networking activities,
advice on new business development, and mathematics and financial management training.

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Over the past few weeks, the Rotary Club of Whyalla members have been very busy in the community.  We have had the Mobile Catering Unit out selling hotdogs, chips and gravy, and at last our wonderful donuts. We were seen at the Football grand final, the Whyalla Show and just last weekend the HOG Rally at the Foreshore.  Once again we have donated the Packages of Hope to the Mental Health unit at the Whyalla Hospital.  Pictured below is Rotarian Michele Sellars with Ouen from the Mental Health Unit.  At last, our recipient of the Glen Eden Excellence in Mental Health prize has received her prize and certificate.   Pictured below is Charlotte Roberts with her certificate.
Then last week we had the pleasure of being guests at the launch of the Country Arts season 2024 - 2025 at the Middleback Theatre.  All members enjoyed the wonderful performance of Yuldea by the Bangarra Dance Theatre.
 
 
 
September is Basic Education and Literacy Month for Rotary
This is one of Rotary’s seven areas of focus.  We all know how critical reading and writing are for success in life – for gaining information, communicating, making agreements, and so forth. 
 
Enhancing Basic Education skills and Literacy are essential in reducing poverty, improving health, encouraging community and economic development, and promoting peace.  Improvements can reduce maternal death, improve childhood survivability, and reduce poverty.  They can also enable success in business or a profession. 
 
Projects undertaken by a Rotary Club can address low adult literacy, returning youth to school, enhancing student performance, or supplementing limited school resources.  Listed below are examples of a number of projects in which clubs can be engaged in. 
 
Consider how your club is, or could showcase "THE MAGIC OF ROTARY by supporting basic education and literacy in your community or somewhere else in the world.  
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Rotary makes high-quality health care available
to vulnerable mothers and children so they can live longer and grow stronger.

 

We expand access to quality care, so mothers and children everywhere can have the same opportunities for a healthy future. An estimated 5.9 million children under the age of five die each year because of malnutrition, inadequate health care, and poor sanitation — all of which can be prevented.

How Rotary makes help happen

Rotary provides education, immunizations, birth kits, and mobile health clinics. Women are taught how to prevent mother-to-infant HIV transmission, how to breast-feed, and how to protect themselves and their children from disease.   

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