Welcome to District 9940

Are you someone who wants to make positive changes in your community and the world? Our club members are dedicated people who share a passion for community service and friendship. Becoming a Rotarian connects you with a diverse group who share your drive to give back.
 
Rotary 9940 is the Rotary District for the Lower North Island. It comprises 1,500 members; just over 50 Clubs and endless opportunities to get involved in the community, network, develop and make friends. Additionally, you become a member of one of the largest membership organisations in the world with 1.2 million members worldwide.  
News and Events from around the District
District Conference 2023  17 - 19 March
District Governor Marilyn Stevens welcomes you all to the sunny Kāpiti Coast for the Rotary District 9940 Conference 2022-2023.
Three days of inspiring speakers and events to connect and collaborate with Rotarians, guests and friends!
 
For more information - please go here
 
Information for Clubs and Progamme Leaders
If your Club or Rotary Programme (eg Rotary Foundation) wishes to have a project display, please go here to register your interest NOW. Following your registration, the organising commiittee will contact you with additional information.
 
Innovative Young Minds (IYM)

Advance Notice

IYM 2023 - online and Residential options - is on!
Applications are now open.
 
 
 
IYM Online is 17-23 April 2023. Please go here for more information and to apply.
 
IYM Residential is 3 - 8 July 2023. Please go here for more information and to apply.
 
 
Update on RGECAF
 
 
 
 
 
The project is making great progress. We are at 95% of our committed fundraising target !
The latest December 2022 Newsletter is here.
The Rotary Foundation - Doing Good in the World
The Rotary Foundation
 
The Rotary Foundation helps Rotary members advance world understanding, goodwill, and peace by improving health, providing quality education, improving the environment, and alleviating poverty. The Rotary Foundation is recognized as one of the most effective and well-managed charitable organizations in the world. Here in Aotearoa New Zealand and throughout the world our Rotarians are working on activities to promote peace, fight disease, provide clean water, sanitation, and hygiene, save mothers and children, support education, grow local economies and protect the environment. For more information on the Rotary Foundation see here.
 
Join us in our work or let us know of community needs by contacting a local Rotary or Rotaract Club here. For enquiries - contact the District 9940 Foundation Administration here
The Foundation is supported by voluntary contributions of time, skills and funds from Rotarians and friends of the Foundation who share our vision of a better world. Donations to help our work in the world should be sent to the Rotary District 9940 Foundation bank account 03-0502-0416962-00.
District Information

Rotary Give Every Child A Future

Three times more women die from cervical cancer in the Pacific than in New Zealand. In Kiribati, every year 1 in 18 children die before their fifth birthday. Many of these lives could be saved by vaccines.

In collaboration with UNICEF, we are vaccinating 100,000 of the most disadvantaged children and adolescent girls across the Pacific to prevent:

  • In women, cervical cancer;

  • In children, severe diarrhoea caused by rotavirus and meningitis, blood infections and pneumonias caused by pneumococcal disease.

This project is running across the Cook Islands, Kiribati, Nauru, Niue, Samoa, Tokelau, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu.

Rotary Children's Health Trust

Rotary District 9940 has a partnership commitment with the Hospitals Foundation, official charity of Wellington Regional Hospital, to raise $400,000 for two Whanau Rooms in the new Wellington Regional Children's Hospital – one on each of the surgical and medical wards.

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Each one will have their own play deck, an indoor play area for patients as well as a dedicated area for whanau with a kitchen, lounge, dining and sleep room for parents/ guardians who have a child in ICU. This provides vitally important support at this critical time in a child’s life. Naming recognition for Rotary will also be given for these rooms for an initial period of 7 years from the date the new Children’s Hospital is open to the public.

 

This exciting project will contribute to ensuring that the Children’s Hospital will meet the needs of young patients, and their whanau, during what is likely to be stressful times in their life. This will help them not just for now – but into the future as well.