Using Rotary Foundation grants, our 34,000 clubs worldwide develop and carry out sustainable humanitarian projects, and provide scholarships and professional training to promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, sustain mothers and children, improve education, and strengthen local economies.
 

As well as supporting major international campaigns, such as ending polio, the Foundation provides crucial grants to our homegrown causes here in the lower South Island, Rotary District 9980.  Supplementing our own fundraising efforts, the Foundation’s made possible countless local initiatives, like Dunedin Central's 'Apples in Schools' project and most recently our District's Cyber-Bullying Prevention Programme, which was launched in 2015.

 
 

Rotary Foundation Global Grant stories

 
Take one passionate, determined Australasian Vocational Training Team, add backing from District 9980, throw in a Rotary Foundation global grant, and what do you get?
Meet Sakhr our District's Global Grants Scholar from Yemen who is currently studying at the University of Otago.
The  primary goal was to support maternal and infant health education in Mongolia.