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DISTRICT CONFERENCE REPORT 

Hello Fellow Rotarians, Partners and Friends 
 

Use this link to find lots of pics from the weekend 
WOW! What a fantastic conference and weekend we have just experienced. 
I want to Thank you all for your support, for your time, input, and commitment for Conference 2025 on the Surf Coast. 
Our Terrific Conference Team have worked long and hard to ensure we could put on a very memorable weekend for all who attended. 
With the speakers we engaged, we took all who attended from tears to joy to laughter .... and every emotion in between .... (across the weekend) we 'touched them all'. 
So many memories from our speakers and their presentations from the Saturday evening dinner, music and dancing to all the good times people had catching up with fellow Rotarians from across the district. 
If you haven't already .... please have a look at all the Facebook posts, comments and feedback. 
Very Many Thanks to Pauline Stewart for all the conference postings! 
Pauline spent many hours developing and updating the website, the graphics and promotion for The 2025 District 9780 Conference. 
This was excellent! It certainly helped to promote the conference and 'show off' our wonderful area - the Surf Coast and surrounds. 
 

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Book Fair
Book Fair sales are from 9 am to 4 pm each day during 17th - 19th January 2025.
 
A pop up BOOK FAIR is a major fund raising activity for the Torquay Rotary Club.
  • Environmental impact - recycling of reading material
  • Collaboration of Community - Secondary College and Rotary
  • Community Impact - provides Rotary with funds to support a variety of activities within our local community as well as the broader national and international projects
Grab something to read and then pass it on to someone else to read - from just $2.  

Lese Oalai School Program in PNG Update

Components of the Lese Oalai School Program in PNG are finally in the implementation stage. 

In particular, the construction of 22 composting toilets has now been completed.

An opening ceremony held on 2 November was attended by Lucy Loko, representatives from the Rotary Club of Boroko, the Catholic Education Department and the local government, as well as teachers, students and villagers of Lese Oalai. The waterless toilets include 10 for boys, 10 for girls, and 2 for teachers and special needs children. 

This is the culmination of three years of effort by the Rotary Clubs of Torquay (D9780), Manly (D9685) and Boroko (D9620), assisted by the PNG NGO the Peter Nathan Loko Foundation. 

   

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Walk With Us to End Polio 2024
Polio is the world’s forgotten disease and something that should have been made history a long time ago. It is a crippling and potentially fatal infectious disease. There is no cure, but there are safe and effective vaccines. The strategy to eradicate polio is therefore based on preventing infection by immunizing every child until transmission stops and the world is polio-free. 
 
This October we are asking you to Walk With Us for those who can’t. We are challenging you to walk, run or roll 10, 20 or 50km throughout the month and raise vital funds that will help eradicate and prepare us for a Polio free world. 
 

2024 Rotary Year Ahead

Rotary District Conference March 21 - 23 2025 

Rotary District Conference will be held from March 21-23 beginning at the 13th Beach Golf Club and culminating at The Sands Resort in Torquay. The conference program will include a social golf event at 13th Beach course, nationally regarded Keynote speakers, and explore a range of topics of concern to Rotarians including the environment and sustainability, disease prevention, especially polio and malaria, health and wellbeing, especially mental health and saying no to family violence.  

Torquay Rotary Business Awards 

The Torquay Rotary Business Awards began as a Torquay Rotary Vocational Service project in 2022, and this year have grown into a larger and more ambitious event with awards celebrating excellence across seven categories and a gala awards night to be held at the Sands Resort on 18 November 2024. 
 
 
Being a Rotarian can be busy and a bit hectic at times, giving a chance to contribute in some way to global or national impact projects or to focus energy on projects to benefit local Surf Coast people.  

Progress as Lese Oalai Village School
 
A 40 foot shipping container has now been successfully delivered to the school site with great fanfare and excitement. The container was full of school desks and chairs, primary school reading books, Days4Girls supplies and other items donated through DIK Geelong to be distributed to Lese Oalai and other villages in the Gulf Province. The container will then be converted into the first ever library for the school and is the first step in the program to redevelop the Lese Oalai school.
 
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Welcome to the Rotary Club of Torquay
Posted by Howard Randall

Welcome to the Rotary Club of Torquay's website (based in Torquay, Victoria, Australia).  Our Club was formed in 1988.  It has a strong, local community focus.  At any one time, the Club supports a range of local, district, national and international projects. www.torquayrotary.org.au

The town of Torquay is the starting point of the world famous Great Ocean Road (click here). Many Rotarians who are on holiday from around the world often visit our Club, where they are always made most welcome.

If you would like to do a make-up at our Club, or would like to become a member of Rotary in the town of Torquay, you are always welcomed! 

To inform us of your attendance, and learn about any potential functions during your time of visit, please contact our Club at the telephone number listed at the top of our web site .

 
The Basics of Rotary
Posted by Howard Randall
The Basics of Rotary
Rotary International, the world's first service club organization, is made up of over 45,000 clubs in more than 200 countries and geographical areas. Its members form a global network of business and professional leaders who volunteer their time and talents to serve their communities and the world.
 
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