Waiheke Rotary were very excited to see that Waiheke pupil, Bonnie Curle appeared on the cover of the nationwide Education Gazette.Bonnie attended the Rotary Science and Technology Forum January 2019 with two others, Toby Ryder and Nahani Bliss.
Waiheke Rotary were thrilled to have 3 students chosen out of 162 from all over NZ and Australia.
The article covered the work that the students have done restoring the wet lands below the High School which has marine life recovering and sea birds returning to the area.
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.
Throughout India and around the world, Rotary clubs are celebrating a major milestone: India has gone three years without a new case of polio. The last reported case was a two-year-old girl in West Bengal on 13 January 2011. To mark this historic triumph, Rotary clubs illuminated landmarks and iconic structures throughout the country with four simple but powerful words, "India is polio free."
