Bardon Facts and Figures

The Rotary Club of Bardon was chartered on 17 May 1993, and is one of 69 clubs in district 9600, having some 2200 members in total. District 9600 encompasses a major part of Queensland, Australia, together with the islands of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon's. Today the club has 22 active members representing a wide range of differing vocations including accounting, telecommunications, education, banking, finance, public relations, geology, consulting, computing, building, real estate, healthcare, catering, tailoring, education and administration areas

 

Besides the local projects Rotary undertakes many international projects.

• Making environmental improvements............
• Offering vocational training.........
• Sponsoring international scholarships and cultural exchanges of people from all walks of life ...........
• Providing polio vaccine to millions of children......
• Building low cost housing for the elderly..........
• the list is endless...

  The major projects may be summarised as follows:

• Rotary Youth Exchange Sends some 7,500 high school age young people to other countries each year.
• World Community Service Matches Rotary Clubs in two or more nations to support a community service project.
• Interact and Rotaract Are service clubs sponsored by Rotary Clubs that provide service opportunities for teenagers and young adults.
• Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) recognise and develop young leaders
• Fellowship Activities bring together Rotarians from around the world with common recreational and professional interests.
• Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarships assist people to study in an overseas country
• Group Study Exchange teams visit overseas countries to study institutions and their professions, serving as goodwill ambassadors for Rotary
• Siemens Summer Science Schools assist students to attend science sessions

  
  

  Why be a volunteer?

  
  

  Its not for the money,
  Its not for the fame,
  Its not for any person gain,
  Its just for the love of fellow man
  It's just to lend a helping hand,
  It's just to give a little of self,
  It's to do something you can't buy with wealth,
  It's not medals worn with pride,
  It's for the feeling deep inside,
  It's the reward down in your heart,
  It's the feeling you've been part of helping others far and near,
  That makes you a volunteer.
  
  

  This is Rotary

  Rotary is an opportunity to build lifelong friendships, and experience the personal fulfilment of providing volunteer service to others. An organisation of business and professional leaders, Rotary provides humanitarian service, encourages high ethical standards in all vocations, and builds goodwill and peace in the world.

  
  

  The object of Rotary

  The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise, and, in particular, to encourage and foster:

   

  • The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service
  • High ethical standards in business and professions, the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; the dignifying of each Rotarians' vocation as an opportunity to serve society
  • The application of the ideal of service in each Rotarian's personal, business and community life.
  • The advancement of international understanding, goodwill and peace through a world fellowship of business and professional people unified in the ideal of service.

  
  

  The Avenues of Service

  
  

  Club Service

  Providing service to the Rotary Club to enable it to run efficiently in the spirit of Fellowship.

  Vocational Service

  Putting high standards of conduct into practice in the business and professional lives of Rotarians.

  Community Service

  Identifying needs in the Rotary Club's community and addressing those needs with service projects.

  International Service

  Working for international understanding and peace by promoting goodwill among all people.

  
  

  The four-way Test

  The 4-way Test is a simple but a profound statement. Of the things we think, say, or do

  
  

  1. Is it the TRUTH?
  2. Is it FAIR to all concerned?
  3. Will it build GOODWILL and BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
  4. Will it be BENEFICIAL to all concerned

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