It’s that time again – time for our 5th week social night (or social afternoon in this case).

You’ve been hearing about this for weeks and now it’s finally here! Clear the afternoon, forget about lame excuses to visit family or clean the apartment! It’s time to kick back and have a drink and a laugh while you work out how to play the crazy old game of croquet.

Also bring along your mates! The more the merrier!

RSVP to Michelle

The 09/10 year has gotten off to a flying start for our International Committee who have begun their first project; supporting an exciting Rotary dental mission taking place throughout communities in the Philippines. 

Several Rotary Clubs with the help of the Cataract Foundation have been carrying out eye and ear missions in the Philippines for a number of years and noticed a need for dental issues of the local people to be addressed. This year a dental aspect will be added to the mission.

A team of volunteers, including one of our own Rotaractors Sharni Bartlett, will be working alongside local dentists, the majority of which are members of the participating local Rotary Clubs. The primary concern of the dental mission will be oral health education for the local school children as well as carrying out emergency dental treatment wherever possible.

To support this worthy project, the International Committee with the help of all the South Brisbane Rotaract club members, are collecting toothbrushes to send over to the Phillipines with Sharni, all of which will be used throughout the dental mission.  We are aiming to collect 2,00 toothbrushes, so we have quite a challenge ahead of us, but one we are confident we can achieve.

Please donate any toothbrushes you might collect from hotels, planes etc or alternatively you could pop into your local supermarket and buy a toothbrush (or two!). We would also love donations of floss and toothpaste if you can spare some. (Please note we only want new and unused items!)

Donations must be received by the 1^st of October 2009, and donations can be made to any of our club members.

For more info, feel free to send us an email.

You can also download and distribute our flyer Toothbrush Drive Flyer to help encourage donations.

The Big Issue Street Soccer National Championships were held in Brisbane this year, and you guessed it, the Rotaract Club of South Brisbane was there to lend a hand. 

The Street Soccer program began in 2003, and uses physical activity, in the form of organised sport, as a catalyst for transforming lives by reconnecting the homeless with the community.

The event was held at the Cultural Forecourt at Southbank, with two 22m inflatable pitches set up along the Brisbane River.  The day was split into two sessions. The morning session consisted of the Corporate Cup, which saw Corporate teams battle it out for the trophy. 

But all eyes were on the main event, the National Championships, which was held in the afternoon.  Although the Queensland team placed an admirable 4th, the battle between the NSW team and the VIC Metro team still attracted many on-lookers from the public.

The Rotaractors were kept busy with many tasks throughout the day, such as time keeping, score keeping (although this could be debated with our PP Renee needing a few tips on how to use the score-board properly!), helping out with food & drinks, and the most challenging task – keeping (or should I say retrieving) soccer balls out of the Brisbane River!

A great day was had by all, with Vic Metro taking out first place.  It should be pointed out that the National Championships also facilitates the selection of the team to represent Australia at the 2009 Homeless Cup which this year will be held in Milan!

For more information please see the Big Issue website (which can be found to the right under ‘Links’).

Aren't we a lovely bunch!

The finals - NSW vs Vic Metro

Winners are grinners... Vic Metro