Youth Service

 
 
Youth Service recognises the positive change implemented by youth and young adults through leadership development activities as RYLA , Rotaract and Interact, service projects, and creating international understanding with Rotary Youth Exchange.
 

So far during 2018 - 2019 ....

 
The Youth Service of Emerald Rotary Club is proud to be able to sponsor 147 students of Emerald Secondary College to take part in a Road Safety Program in Springvale at the Sandown Greyhound Racing Club on the 14th of May 2019.

Emerald Rotary Club is paying the whole amount of the travel cost - in three buses - and Rotary volunteers will guide the students on the day to complete different tasks relating to Road safety.
Hopefully this program will reduce the road accidents rate in the hills and help to raise responsible young drivers on our roads.

In December 2018 the Youth service of Emerald Rotary presented two engraved watches as the Citizen award for two Year 12 students of Emerald Secondary College.
This years recipients were Marley Gusts and Sean Duguid. This sponsorship has been an ongoing support for a number of years now and is highly appreciated by Emerald Secondary College.

The Youth Service of Emerald had agreed to sponsor a team of 2 year 11 students from Emerald Secondary College to be part of the MUNA program, but due to high demand Emerald Secondary College missed out as team 41 -  only 40 teams could be accepted for 2019.
The MUNA organisation promised to give Emerald Secondary College a high priority for next years selection.

Emerald Primary School received a great sponsorship from Emerald Rotary Club in regards of the RACV Breakthrough Challenge in September 2018. This event is always great fun for students, parents and teachers and wouldn't have been possible without the support of our club.
 
Chair
Susi Wilson
 

What we completed in 2017 - 2018

Throughout the past year the Youth Services Committee has worked to ensure we are assisting the youth of our area wherever we can. We continued to offer many of the wonderful programs that the District offers, it was at times difficult to obtain the cooperation we required to ensure participants for each program but we we able to provide many opportunities for our young people.
 
Primary School Speech Contest
 
The Primary schools in our area are very supportive and were again very willing participants in the Primary School Speech Contest. Gloria and Vicki headed up the organisation of this event which was held at Selby Primary School on 24th October. The whole committee assisted on the evening along with many other club members and the outcome was a very successful event. Caitlyn Megarrell was the winner of this contest. Cailtlyn went on to compete in the final and did a great job but did not place.
 

Scholarships

In November & December we presented our scholarships and awards at end of school presentation nights.

The Marie Ranger scholarship was presented to two Macclesfield Primary School students, the Les Smith Memorial Scholarships were presented to Tealiah O’Neil and Noah Faneco of Emerald Secondary College and two Citizen watches were presented to Nicholas Cookson and Jacynta Howden at the Secondary Colleges Valedictory dinner.

 

Cocktails on the Catwalk

Our committee along with the Membership and Marketing committee  worked together on our fundraising project, Cocktails on the Catwalk. This event was held on Saturday 26th May.