YOUTH & LEARNING INITIATIVES*
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| Rotary District 9800 co-ordinates, runs and partners a variety of programs and initiatives aimed at fostering youth involvement and learning within the community.
Opportunities exist for community minded people to work alongside our New Generations Committee in initiating and supporting projects and programs that help today's youth create a better future for tomorrow.*
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Youth & Learning Projects & Programs You Can Help With:
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| Developing values and morals in young people involves more than just lecturing them - experience and understanding make a huge difference in an individual's life. The Rotary Youth Program of Enrichment is an interactive program of weekend workshops allowing teenagers to work through social dilemmas and develop their own moral and ethical reasoning abilities and values in a supportive peer environment. Find out more...
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| Rotary District 9800 provides strong support to the Stride Foundation, an organisation encouraging youth to achieve, inspire and discover throughout their lives. Find out more...
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| The Read To Me program is an ambitious initiative aiming to encourage early childhood literacy through families reading aloud to children at the earliest possible age. See what we're doing and how you can help make it happen. Find out more...
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| One of Rotary International's most well-known programs - Rotary International Youth Exchange - is proudly supported by District 9800. The support and participation of thousands has brought the world closer and fostered greater cross-cultural understanding since 1927. Opportunities exist for students, host families and supporters to participate.Find out more...
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| The Kids Help Line is run by Reachout! and provides a vital telephone counselling service for young children through to adolescents. Your donation could mean the difference between a young person in need finding help instead of an engaged signal. Find out more...
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| The Skandia Geelong Week gives a specially selected group of teenagers nominated from country towns the opportunity to sail in the Australia Day Regatta, enabling them to develop a sense of teamwork, discipline, pride, achievement and personal growth. Find out more...
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| The Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) program is a week-long residential personal development program for young people aged 18-25, which focuses on self-leadership and community. Find out more...
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| How does the United Nations Assembly work? What are the key issues involved in creating world peace, preventing famines, eliminating third world debt, or ensuring each nation has a fair say on the world stage? The Model United Nations allows young people to understand through participative peer learning just how the world moves to better change for tomorrow. See how you can contribute to world understanding. Find out more...
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| Scientists are responsible for most of the new technology we see around us today - whether in transport, energy supply, or even in information technology. Young science students are our prospective physicists, lab technicians, medical researchers, radiographers, psychologists, zoologists and discoverers of cures for cancer - they need your encouragement and support to make this a better place. Find out more...
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| The Storm The Stage program encourages young people to get involved in performing arts, giving them an outlet for expression and passion. Find out more...
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| The First Steps program was developed by Rotary to assist young Australians in preparing for and finding a job. The program helps not only point young jobseekers in the right direction, but also assists them in developing the self-awareness, goals, realism, confidence and savvy that is required both in getting a job and succeeding in it. Find out more...
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*All Rotarians and volunteers in Rotary projects involving children and people at-risk are required to undertake a Working With Children Check through Victoria Police. Rotary District 9800 additionally adheres to a Protection Policy for such projects in order to protect the interests of children, the at-risk and volunteers alike.
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