Stellenbosch Rotary Club

• 02Mar

  Youth outreach

  NEWS!

  A partnership to help Stellenbosch’s street children

  Rhine Ruhr (PTY) LTD and the Rotary Club of Stellenbosch have partnered to help Youth Outreach ready a night shelter to accommodate girl street children. The managing director of Rhine Ruhr (PTY) LTD, Mark van der Walt, generously donated goods to the value of R30 000. The donation included 16 double bunk beds, bedding, curtains, a bookshelf and a personal computer.

  The Rotary Club of Stellenbosch brought the donor and a social worker at Youth Outreach together to discuss what was needed to open the shelter for girls. Youth Outreach is an organisation that has been helping street children in Stellenbosch since 1997. Until July 2010 Youth Outreach offered accommodation mainly to boys at their facility on the corner of Bird and Bell Streets in Stellenbosch. The donation from Rhine Ruhr (PTY) LTD has ensured that Youth Outreach’s second facility, also in Bell Street, is reaching out to girl children who live on the streets in Stellenbosch.

  
• 02Mar

  Youth outreach

  NEWS!

  The Rotary Club of Stellenbosch together with swedish based company Rhine Ruhr (PTY) LTD as donor has helped establish a centre for girls at the Youth Outreach Project at Bell house near Du Toit station. 16 double bunks including bedding (sheets, pillows, duvets & duvet covers) as well as a book shelf and PC were donated.

  

  
• 02Mar

  Kibwe kids

  NEWS!

  The Rotary Club of Stellenbosch reaches out to children

  Club president, Ubanesia Adams-Jack, Rotarians Zelda Ellis and Ambassadorial Scholar Adam Hinman, visited Sinekhaya to hand over clothes for babies and children to the project leader, Joylene Smith. Sinekhaya is a Kibwe Kids safe house for orphaned and abused children in Kayamandi Stellenbosch.

  

  
• 11Feb

  Medallion Tour De Stellenbosch – 20 February 2011

  Medallion Cycle Race

  

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• 28Feb

  Rotary celebrates their 105th birthday

  General, NEWS!, Photo Gallery, Social Events

  The Stellenbosch Rotary Club joined in the festive celebration of Rotary International’s 105th birthday which was held at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town on Tuesday, 23rd of February.

  To celebrate the event,  prominent landmarks around the world were illuminated with the End Polio Now message.

  In Cape Town, the Kick Polio Out of Africa awareness campaign was launched with the symbolic kicking of a soccer ball signed by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu. By putting in the highest bid in a fundraising auction, Stellenbosch club members Barry and Vanessa Eason became the proud owners of the ball, which will be coming home to them after it has travelled through 22 polio-affected countries en route to the RI Convention in Montréal, Québec, Canada, in June.

  

  Rotarians celebrate together at the Waterfront

  

  Shan with Vanessa and Barry - proud new owners of the soccer ball

  See how Hans Vonk from the Ajax soccer team symbolically kicks the ball to launch the Kick Polio out of Africa campaign:

  Apart from its international significance, Stellenbosch was also very proud to induct 3 new members in front of the Old Port Captain’s Office in the waterfront - Cape Town’s illuminated landmark. A warm welcome to Jaco, Laurika and Rene.

  

  Geraldine, Rene, Shan, Laurika, Jaco & Derek - welcome to the club

  

  Stellenbosch Rotaractors and their German guests

  

  Stellenbosch Rotary Club and friends

  To read more about the international celebration of Rotary’s birthday, visit the Rotary International website.

  

  The illuminated Old Port Captain's Office

  

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