President's Message
Happy 2025 to all our members, family and friends. I hope the holiday season was a joyous time and you will all come back energized for Rotary activities in 2025.
 
We have already kicked off with the first Boroondara Farmers Market for 2025 and for once the weather gods were on our side. Hopefully this is a portent of a good year. It should always be remembered that whilst the Market is the financial mainstay of our club, it also supports the Education CHANCES Foundation. As you know CHANCES hands out each year about 100 scholarships to disadvantaged but diligent students in Boroondara. This is the time of year that the funds are distributed, and we wish all the students a successful academic year.
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Isaiah Lahai to be Featured Tonight On 94.1FM
Rotarian Isaiah Lahai will be interviewed tonight, Friday January 24th, on the Rotary Radio Show, 3WBC 94.1FM, from 6pm. Isaiah will be interviewed by presenter PP Charles Tran, and will speak about his incredible life's journey, his commitment to the villagers of Buedu Sierra Leone, and the successful club project in support of the Aladura Primary School in the village. Be sure to tune in. 6pm tonight on 94.1FM, The Voice of the Inner East!
Rotary Glenferrie’s WASH Project in Buedu, Sierra Leone
This story first appeared in the December 2024 issue of the District 9800 'Networker' newsletter.
 
The Journey
This story began a few years ago when Isaiah Lahai joined the Rotary Club of Glenferrie. Isaiah has an amazing story of survival: a refugee from Sierra Leone due to civil war; 14 years in five camps in Guinea; then  making his way to Australia. Since arriving in Australia, he has supported his community back in Sierra Leone and particularly the Aladura Primary School in Buedu: the value of education in improving the lives of young people cannot be underestimated. Buedu is in a remote area in the far east of Sierra Leone near the border with Liberia.
Do you read the Glenferrie Rotarian? 
The mailing list for The Glenferrie Rotarian currently standards at 138, but on average almost half of those who are sent the Bulletin do not read it. The club bulletin is a primary point of contact for members and friends of the Rotary Club of Glenferrie, and a key medium for passing along information, but it can only succeed in doing that if read. Here are the readership figures for the last five bulletins: 
 
EditionReadership
December 19th 2024 - Special Christmas edition67%
December 9th 202454%
November 25th 202458%
November 18th 202455%
November 11th 202454%
 
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I don't believe a word of it!
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Upcoming Events
Start the New Year off Well Picnic and BBQ
Yarra Bank Reserve Playground
Jan 28, 2025
5:30 PM – 8:00 PM
 
Salvation Army Bread Run
Bakers Delight
Jan 30, 2025 5:45 PM
 
Camcare Assistance
Camcare
Jan 30, 2025
9:45 AM – 1:00 PM
 
Boroondara Farmers Market
Patterson Reserve
Feb 01, 2025
7:00 AM – 1:15 PM
 
Salvation Army Bread Run
Bakers Delight
Feb 06, 2025 5:45 PM
 
RIMERN
RIMERN Warehouse
Feb 10, 2025
10:00 AM – 1:00 PM
 
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 The Rotary Club of Glenferrie acknowledges the traditional owners as the custodians of this land, recognising their connection to land, waters and community. We pay our respects to Australia's First Peoples, and to their elders, past, present and future.
 
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