Carmen Bekker: Assisting youth on the northern beaches

Carmen shared with us her passion of working with kids whom have experienced hardship, the breakdown of family relationships and the supports that underpin their health, education, happiness and wellbeing.

The valuable services offered by Taldumande on the Northern Beaches focuses on providing stable short and longer term support and accommodation options, encouraging young people to remain within their local communities and achieve longer lasting successful outcomes for their personal goals.

A reason to eat cake!

What better reason to eat cake! get your plum pudding or whisky cake for xmas and support rotary projects at the same time!

Your contributions will support much needed community projects.

Contact Frank to order now.

Help fill our stocking!

Christmas is almost here!

and we need your help to fill our

christmas stocking!

We need contributions suitable to fill our [large] christmas stocking. The stocking will be raffled to raise money for much needed community projects.

Do you have a new car you want to donate?
Toys? for little people or big!
Perfume? Books? or Gadgets?

Non perishable food items? Gift vouchers?


If you have items you'd like to donate or know someone who might please contact Frank or Bob at the Rotary Club of Dee Why Warringah. Your donations will support Rotary projects.

Help us make this rotary christmas the best year EVER!

Great success at the Rotary BBQ

The Berry Reserve BBQ was a great success on Sunday

Join us at our next BBQ on Sunday the 16th November.

Berry Reserve

Pittwater Rd

Narrabeen Lake

Project Ilypa

Erin Lowie and Nami McShane gave us an update on their progress of Project Ilypa. Project Ilypa aims to improve health outcomes for Indigenous children.

The Ilypa team have established a 2 stage project with the first stage to be complete by the end of 2008. Stage one will ensure that sound systems will be available in classrooms in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. This will assist children who experience hearing loss due to Otitis Media to engage and learn more effectively in the classroom. .

The project Ilypa team will continue to establish corporate and community support to ensure funds are raised for the supply of sounds systems.

Read more about project Ilypa

PDG Pam Pritchard: The Rotary Foundation

Pam Prichard, from the Rotary Club of Turramurra was District 9680’s first female District Governor in 2006-07, and is well known to many members.

Pam spoke with knowledge and passion on the progress of The Rotary Foundation’s Polio Plus campaign which began in 1985 to rid the world of the scourge of polio. The UN, the World Health Organization and many others said that it couldn’t be done but today, the annual rate of new polio cases has fallen from around 1,000 per day to about 1,000 per annum, a remarkable achievement. Today, polio remains in only 4 countries: Nigeria, India, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Type 2 Polio has already been totally eliminated with the others expected to also become extinct within 2 or 3 years.

Although this is an expensive program, it is far less expensive than to accept the current level of infections and to handle the new cases as they arise. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have donated $US100 million to the Rotary Foundation’s Polio Plus project on condition that it be matched by Rotary Clubs. A donation of $US1,000 from each Rotary Club in the world for 3 years will see it matched. After the first year, we are on track to reach the goal.

Clubs are encouraged to donate, as are individual Rotarians. For an on-going $100 pa, Rotarians can become Centurions, and receive Paul Harris recognition when their accumulated donations pass the $US1,000 mark.

PDG Pam was thanked by Bob Manley, noting that Pam was the DG’s Zone Representative in 1999-2000 when Bob served an earlier term as Club President.

Want to donate to support the eradication of polio in the world?Contact Tony to complete your transaction. We'll Thankyou!

Wonders of the Universe

Glen spoke to us about the multitude of universes in the sky and the earth’s quest to find planets capable of supporting life.

He explained how earth telescopes are able to pick up large planets moving around stars and how from there an effort is being made to locate smaller planets the right size and distance from the star to allow life. To narrow this down they are looking at stars (sun’s) approx the size of earth’s sun. This narrowed the search down to 300 and from this they are concentrating on one particular star.
For ten years NASA and associated agencies have been developing a new telescope that detects the wabble of smaller planets. Planet Quest hopes to have this up and running by 2015 and it is hoped it will be the first telescope to detect habitable planets and is expected to monitor a couple of hundred stars over 15 years. There is also new breed of telescope that blocks out the sun and allows scientist to look at planets and objects closest to the sun.

Glen’s talk covered a great deal about the galaxy and the search for life on other planets and everyone enjoyed the evening.