Events

Schedule of Club Meetings and Special Events

February to June 2023

Version 2, December 2022

Not To Be Missed! Behind the Badge talks are always interesting!

Rebecca hails from the pearl of Africa (Uganda). She identifies as a social entrepreneur and a researcher. As a researcher, Rebecca is pursuing a doctorate research at the University of Melbourne, where she explores– what the social, political and economic dimensions of disability in Uganda's primary education reveal about the country's development and democracy. As a social entrepreneur, Rebecca has founded the Ten Billion Hearts Foundation, which focuses on transferring skills to underserved communities through building diverse partnerships.

M.C.  Katrina Flinn

Members and guests are invited to the first Club meeting for the year at Kooyong on Tuesday 7 February.  The speaker will be our newest member, Rebecca Tamasuza, who will tell us her story in a ‘Member Behind the Badge’ presentation.

Australian Red Cross Lifeblood, simply known as Lifeblood, is a branch of the  Australian Red Cross responsible for the collection nd distribution of blood and biological products in Australia. Lifeblood employs around 3,700 employees across scientific, clinical and support services, processing over half a million blood donations each year.

M.C. Dorothy Gilmour

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Ahmed was awarded the Ambassador for Peace award in 2018 by the Universal Peace Federation and is a Member of Rotary Melbourne.

Ahmed Tohow is based in Australia from Somalia origin, he has completed a Master of Terrorism and Security Studies as well as Master and bachelor degree of International Development Studies from Charles Sturt, RMIT and Latrobe university respectively.

Ahmed is a founder and a Director of East Africa Security and Policy Forum EASPF which aims to promote the values of peace, stability and security in East Africa.

Ahmed Tohow is the Deputy Chair of the Board of Directors of the Global Somali Diaspora gsd.org.uk

Prior to his professional career, Ahmed worked for several aid agencies, UNITAF and UNISOM’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia in 1990s. He also worked with UNISOM, Red Cross, UNHCR and IOM in Africa. He specialises in peace building, countering violent extremism, conflict resolution and community development. Ahmed has more than 15 years experience in the areas of civil war, particularly on Horn of Africa.

M.C. Dorothy Gilmour

In 1916, two teams of Australian soldiers put on an exhibition match of football in London. Most of them were gifted athletes who had put their football on hold to enlist.

Six weeks after the match, the men were on the Western Front, some of them never to return home.

This is the story of the footballers who became soldiers, the game they played and the fate they met amid the carnage of World War I. ​

“In 1916 some of the country's finest Australian Rules footballers stepped onto the grounds of Queen's Club, in London, for an exhibition match. They were soldiers, and it was political football. Nick Richardson's engaging and extensively researched study puts the match in context, emphasising the convergence of sport and politics, and the extraordinary pressure put on elite players to enlist – to patriotically forsake the game for the greater game of war.’’   
The Age/Sydney Morning Herald. 

M.C. David Rush

Peter is the owner and principal optometrist of Pezzimenti Nixon Optometrists.  Prior to joining Pezzimenti Nixon Optometrists in 2013, he was the Lead Optometrist of Children’s Services at the Australian College of Optometry. Peter has a strong interest in children’s vision, development and welfare.

Peter volunteers as an optometrist in Nepal with Rotary International every year, working in remote villages under the shadow of the Himalayan Mountains. He finds working with people of all ages to be a fun and enjoyable experience, with enormous satisfaction achieved when vision improvement is found. He strives for excellence and a holistic approach to optometry practice.

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Photo: Couresy of Pezzimenti Nixon Optometrists

M.C. David McNamara

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