‘International’ Archives
Rotary at the Festival of the Maples
The Perth Rotary Club was pleased to be at this year’s Festival of the Maples. We had our ShelterBox on hand to display and also held a bean bag toss for the kids to learn about Literacy. Each participant received a book. We hope you enjoyed MapleFest also! 2012 [Read More]
Globe & Mail talks about Rotary
Today, the Globe & Mail featured an article about Rotary and the great things we do. The article, titled “Give heroic charity back to heroic charities” shows how Rotary has been so extremely successful in our endeavours. This is great timing as Perth Rotary [Read More]
Thank you from Clara Colop
Our Guatemalan Partner Clara Colop sent this message on her departure from Canada: Senores y Rotario Club Quiero manifestar mi agradecimiento por su apoyo en diferentes maneras para que yo pudiera realizar este viaje. Debo informales que hemos logrado como organizacion [Read More]
Guatemalan Partner in Perth Area until late November
Clara Colop a Mayan-Guatemalan and her 12 year old daughter Utzil Yac-Colop have come to the area to work with the Rotary Club of Perth and several other groups. Seňora Colop runs an NGO in Guatemala which helps Mayans, the native people of her country. She also [Read More]
Australian Rotarians Visit Perth, Ontario
On September 19th three visiting Rotarians and their wives from District 9640 Australia were introduced to their Perth Rotary hosts at a Rotary meeting held in Perth. Bill and Dianne Vanderstaay from the Rotary Club of Mermaid Beach stayed with Jim and Lorna Peden, Noel and [Read More]
Rotary Club of Perth Welcomes Clara Colop
Guatemala is a country struggling with an unfortunate spectrum of injustices affecting the most vulnerable and marginalized of the population: indigenous people – more specifically indigenous women. Further, with seasonal weather often progressing into extreme [Read More]
Visit from Rotary of Perth, Scotland!
On July 2, 2011, we were honoured to receive John Hulbert and his wife from the Rotary Club of Perth St. John’s, Scotland. We met them at the Rotary Friendship Fountains by the Crystal Palace and exchanged banners while posing for a few photos. Here you can see [Read More]
“This Close” to ending Polio
Rotary’s “This Close” public awareness campaign, which aims to ramp up support for the effort to eradicate polio, has drawn the participation of celebrities and public figures worldwide — Bill Gates, cochair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Archbishop [Read More]
Rotarian Linda in Tanzania
Being a member of Rotary means that you have connections anywhere in the world. Perth Rotarian Linda Cooke was working on a project with a college in Dodoma and joined the Rotary Club’s weekly meeting there. She was made most welcome and was interested to learn about [Read More]
65 Years of Giving
The Rotary Club of Perth was chartered on November 29, 1946, nearly 65 years ago. We are part of a worldwide network of 33,000 clubs with more than 1.2 million members. Over this time we have raised and donated several hundred thousands of dollars. We have raised these [Read More]
