Rotary KOSHISH Garden Project Nepal:    A project being brought to fruition by our Club's         International Director

$5,000 contributed in 2023/2024 to create a sustainable fruit and vegetable garden

KOSHISH is a new emergency mental health facility for women in Pharping, a semi-rural location near Kathmandu in Nepal, funded basically from foreign aid mainly from Japan.                                             

Rotary Rosebud Rye funded a grant of $3,000 for kitchen equipment in 2022/23.

The project will use their 1,500 square metres of usable, gently undulating land inside and outside their gated compound to plant a sustainable fruit and vegetable garden, including 100 grafted fruit trees and vegetables. There is a good water supply, which is gravity-fed from a nearby stream.

Outcomes and Benefits:  The project will add value to the economic viability of the Centre and complement the psychological outcomes for the women patients.   It will

(a)   Reduce the food bill for the Centre, and help make the Centre sustainable in the longer term

(b)   Provide a future source of income once the trees are established

(c)   Improved mental health when working in nature and focusing on caring for the plants, having a purpose and being motivated and organized, thereby leading to higher self-esteem

(d)   Enable the patients to be trained in organic farming techniques and skills that they can take back to their villages – and thus become productive members of their community

Interplast - Changing Futures through Medical Care and Training

Interplast provides life-changing and reconstructive surgery to patients, related medical services and training for staff in developing nations in the Pacific and Asia. 

Through a collaboration with Rotary Clubs across the Peninsula, a scholarship has been provided for a surgeon to study in Melbourne.  Our Club contributed $1,000 to this project this year. 

End Polio Now

Rotary Rosebud-Rye continued it's annual commitment in 2023/24 to the End Polio Now campaign by contributing $2,000. End Polio Now is part of a Global Polio Initiative, run with United Nations organisations and supported 50/50 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. 

We are part of an international community who step up to take on the world's toughest challenges. The eradication of polio is one of our longest standing and most significant efforts.  Along with our partners, we have helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children against polio in 122 countries.

Rotarians Against Malaria (RAM) 

In 2019, 67% of all malaria deaths were children under 5 - that's 274,000 children.

Rotary Rosebud-Rye contributed $2,000 in the 2023/2024 year to help provide bed nets and indoor residual sprayers, which are used to protect vulnerable women and children from this deadly disease.

Pictured: A new bed net on its way to a new home. 

Morocco Earthquake

On 8th September, 2023 a severe earthquake of the shallow magnitude of 6-8 struck near the town of Oukaimedene in western Morocco. More than 2,900 people were killed and 5,500 people injured. The earthquake heavily damaged parts of the ancient section of Marrakech and devastated several remote settlements.

Rotary International immediately responded - as it does in all disasters and places of conflict around the world - and Rotary Clubs around the world dug deep to help. 

Rotary Rosebud-Rye contributed $1,000 to the appeal.