What do Children think about Peace?
Type: Story
Published: Jun 12, 2023
Posted by Swati Baindur on Jun 12, 2023 The Peace Team at the Rotary Club of Wyndham Harbour presented the club’s Peace Essay Project at the Peace Park in the ‘House of Friendship’ at the Rotary International Convention at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre. The project is a Peace Essay competition run annually for primary school-aged children (Grades/Years 5 and 6), to gauge what young children of think about peace issues, including internal peace and how to attain it, external peace and what it means, how conflicts arise and what can be done to overcome them. Winning essays from the past three years were read out. Here are some excerpts from the essays: Heili Perera, Grade 5, Cambridge Primary School, Vic. “In my understanding, the meaning of peace is to live without worry, fear or burden. To be peaceful, a person has to first
Getting to know the clubs—the Carlton story
Type: Story
Published: Aug 21, 2020
‘Carlton’. The name evokes all sorts of impressions, involvements, memories and responses. Whether it’s a pizza in Lygon Street, a shared flat from university days or (way back) trudging up to Princes Park to support the Blues, nearly everyone has a cherished Carlton link!The Rotary Club of Carlton, chartered in 1985, embraces an area that encompasses or borders a medley of Melbourne’s icons – the CBD, Melbourne University, Melbourne Cemetery, Victoria Market, the Exhibition Building, the Museum, Melbourne Zoo and also some of the state’s most significant hospitals. There have also been vast residential changes and considerable population diversity. Grand nineteenth century mansions and single fronted cottages have been joined by high density and public housing developments, as well as student accommodation. The area has benefitted from the European post-war migration and, more recently, this has been supplemented by arrivals from Asia and East Africa.
What does peace mean to you (internally and externally) and how can it be achieved?
Type: Story
Published: Feb 06, 2021
By Heili Perera (Cambridge Primary – 5E)In my understanding, the meaning of peace is to live without worry, fear or burden. To be peaceful, a person has to first find the calmness, harmony and true freedom from within. The peace is not only a personal aspect but also drives beyond yourself, your home, the community and to the greater world. A peaceful person makes a positive impact to his or her family and friends. When more and more people appreciate there are different cultures, religions, races, languages, ways of living, values and ideas then the society becomes a better place for everyone.Conflicts can occur due to various reasons. Expectations, differences, the greed for power can break the peace. People live with fear, burden, anger and distress when opposite of peace is present. In simple terms, it can be identified as a way of fighting. Fighting with oneself, home or even the community. War as we know it, is when two or more countries or groups fight over something. I