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Meet your neighbours...

Rotary eClub D9510online, Australia

Our formation and story began early in 2014 as an ‘e-Club’ with a difference.

The structure of our eClub (D9510online, Australia) enables us to communicate online via ZOOM with
anyone throughout the world, and our membership at the moment includes New Zealand and Australia
to Ethiopia.

We meet using ZOOM on the 1st and 3rd Wednesday
of each month and communicate a lot with email.
This arrangement suits Members who travel a lot,
or live in remote areas, and cannot attend regular
meetings.

If you do not have a computer with ZOOM, that’s not
a problem, as some members use their Tablets or
Mobile Phones with ZOOM, we provide a lot of IT
support. Also if you don’t drive, or don’t like to drive
at night, or may have a disability or work long hours,
then.... our eClub may be a perfect solution for you to continue your Rotary journey.

Our Members sometimes have a specific community service project or cause they wish to support and as a
Club we endeavour to support a project as much as we can. Our projects have included food parcels for the
isolated community of Patle, in Nepal, and the Vinayak Shiksha Niketan school in the rural area of Nepal,
an ongoing support project. One of our guest speakers, Sally Charlton from Hands on Project, enabled our
Members to assemble two mechanical hands for a person in Cambodia.

With a Club Member in Ethiopia we are assisting the AFAR Community with funds for urgent needs like
water and food supplies. We also financially assisted Parks Rotary Club for a special chair for the Spinal
Injuries unit at Hampstead Rehabilitation Centre, and assistance with our short term Youth Exchange
Student.

Our Members also manage two main Club Projects.
Food For Health which is a partnership with SA Health
and was created to provide valuable information on
healthy food choices and a healthy lifestyle.
Marketing and management of Voice of Rotary website
and Facebook page. This project is marketing District
9510 Rotary Club Projects and Programs. This media is particularly aimed at Public consumption in creating
an interest for volunteering with Rotary.

The Club also manages a range of ‘on-line services’ that helps to provide a small fundraising activity, which
enables us to fund Community Humanitarian projects. These services support Clubs and the District with
secure backend website IT Services including hosting and email support. This is managed by eClub
Members under ‘IT Management Services’, and takes the stress out of understanding backend IT.

In addition to backend services, the eClub also manages an event & merchandise My Booking Manager.
This is a service for Clubs and Rotary Programs, which can be setup for events to take online bookings or
registrations. My Booking Manager is linked via a secure payment gateway for Visa Cards using Stripe,
which is processed at a low competitive rate.

We have several other IT based services being reviewed to enable a service to Clubs and Rotary Programs –
so as you can see we can take the stress out of your IT. continued over ...
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