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I joined our club at the beginning of last year and have since been involved in a range of opportunities I am glad to have been offered.

 One of the charities that we, as a club, currently support is Paws for Hope and Understanding.

Paws for Hope and Understanding is a Queensland charity dedicated to providing trained service dogs to ex-defence and emergency services personnel, particularly veteran and first responders, who are navigating mental health struggles. At Kenmore High’s Interact Club, we are passionate about this cause and have worked hard to support it with our initiatives. 

The Rotary Club of Kenmore has partnered with the Kenmore State High School to deliver a Youth Leadership for Life Program for students in Years 8 and 11. The Program is being offered to interested students in Year 8 starting in Term 1, over a period of eight to ten weeks and to Year 11 students over a period of five weeks in Term 2. Each session will occur in the 45-minute second break.

The Program aims for students to consider their personal leadership journey through the development of transferable skills and identifying a set of personal values that define their personal leadership style. After development of these skills and values, students will be able to apply their skills through a variety of activities that allow for self-reflection and encourage a cycle of refinement.

SolarBuddy is an Australian charity based in Brisbane, whose goals are gifting solar devices to children living in extreme energy poverty, and educating people to be agents of change to end such poverty.

Kenmore Rotary has been involved with the SolarBuddy programme for 10 years, partnering with local primary schools to provide JuniorBuddy solar LED lights to children in remote villages. The lights are delivered to our schools in kit form, and the children, in year 5 or 6, assemble them, guided by their teachers and Rotarians. The children also write a short letter to the recipient of the light.

Brisbane City Council supports Kenmore Rotary providing study lights to students in Papua New Guinea communities that don't have electricity