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RYLA - Rotary Youth Leadership Award
September saw the most recent RYLA Program being held at the Nunyara Conference Centre.
It's a program that has layers of involvement, bringing together:
• Young Adult Awardees, with a core goal of gaining leadership skills to utilise throughout their future.
• Young Leaders, who are honing the skills they learned as Awardees and paying it back.
• Rotarians and their clubs, who are investing in the future with both time and sponsorship.
RYLA needs the involvement of all 3 groups to continue to be a flagship program of Rotary in the future.
Having only taken up the position of RYLA
Committee chair in July and not having had
the experience of being an Alumni, September
was my first opportunity to see the program
first hand.
Our sponsor club for the September program
was the Rotary Club of Campbelltown. Their
financial contribution and the support and
involvement of club members was outstanding,
I can only hope all future clubs aim for the same standard. They were also one of the 28 clubs who
sponsored the 35 awardees who attended. Thank you to all of those clubs for your continued support.
Across the 7 day program, I not only got to meet awardees,
get to know members of the Campbelltown Rotary Club
and the leadership team, but to sit in on some of the
speakers, and workshops. I can assure you that the
awardees weren't the only one's enhancing their leadership
skills, there was a Chair who was avidly writing notes to
improve hers as well!
RYLA is one method for Rotary to plan for the future - how many members of your club are Alumni of a
Rotary program? It isn't a short term goal but a long term one, where we have the opportunity to teach
the skills, see them being utilised, before they return to benefit Rotary in the future.
Be a part of this valuable program. Encourage awardees to apply, sponsor the program, and be involved in
the program.
Our committee is happy to promote the program to your club, just ask.
Helen Marshall
Chair, RYLA Committee
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