Giving and Celebrating

Giving and Celebrating

As a club we celebrated giving to worthy community minded organisations a very large proportion of the funds raised in the last 12 mths. Some has been tagged as the year progresses and the largest dollar amounts were presented on Thursday evening.
RYLA – Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

RYLA – Rotary Youth Leadership Awards

RYLA is an intensive, professionally developed Rotary leadership programme which aims to foster and grow emerging leaders. Participants attend a week long residential workshop taking part in a range of experiences including seminars and group activities designed to...
Donation and Celebration

Donation and Celebration

What a great evening on Thursday night – $2,000 plus per member was raised last year! As always our club members did Papamoa Rotary proud by supplying such an array of finger foods. With about 20 visitors from community groups within Papamoa and Te Puke, on board to...
Laketatu Orphanage, Usa River, Tanzania

Laketatu Orphanage, Usa River, Tanzania

Last week Papamoa Rotarian, Past District Governor Geoff Mathis visited the Laketatu Orphanage at UsaRiver.   This Orphanage was initiated by Godlisten Kaaya some five years ago. Godlisten himself was a street kid for the first eight years of his life and from...
Dictionaries in Schools

Dictionaries in Schools

Our members Bonnie & Maree distributed dictionaries to a number of schools in the Tauranga/Papamoa region. Dictionaries in Schools is a global initiative of past Rotary International President, Bill Boyd, who is a New Zealander. It is a part of the ongoing goal of...