Thanks Waiheke Rotary Club! Once again you are making a difference to many local families and individuals; in fact 70 recipients Of Countdown Gift Cards will find Christmas a little easier having received cards this time around.
Waiheke Rotary makes this possible each year by funding the project whilst Community Networks Waiheke works with local Social Service Agencies to ensure the Gift Cards find a good home!
A win win for all, Here’s to a Merry Christmas!
Photo: Melanie Michell, Waiheke Rotary's Treasurer presenting Maggie Wikaira from Community Networks Waiheke the Countdown vouchers.
These pupils from Waiheke Primary School are among the 101 year four pupils who received their free Usbourne Illustrated Dictionaries this year. Richard from Raw kindly brought them over to the island to save the freight costs.
Waiheke Primary School children with their brand new dictionaries
Waiheke's next generation of lifeguards put through their paces
Brodie Nathan, Ao Hau ( teacher) and Ethan Douglas with Rotary's Sherryn El Bakary
Fossil Bay Primary School year 4 pupils with their new dictionaries
Sherryn El Bakary, John Waugh and Steve Fabris at the Britomart train station.
Mailis Herren of year 12 and Toby Ryder of year 13 show off their upgraded Robot.
Waiheke Rotary were very excited to see that Waiheke pupil, Bonnie Curle appeared on the cover of the nationwide Education Gazette.
This week Sherryn El Bakary and Richard Potter, Youth Directors of the Waiheke Rotary Club, visited both Waiheke Primary School and Te Huruhi Primary School to donate 107 Usbourne Illustrated Dictionaries to all year 4 pupils. This project has been an annual highlight for both schools, according to the teachers involved, since it was instigated by Waiheke Rotary in 2012. Tess Parlane of Te Huruhi School assured us that the pupils had been looking forward to Rotary’s visit and were incredibly excited and proud of their books.
Rotary's Neil Harding (right) has been leading the charge to get AED devices installed all over Waiheke.
