Waitakere Rotary Club: The Fifth Decade


President: Craiger Hargesheimer
Rotary Theme: Building Communities Bridging Continents
The big project for this year – in amongst all our normal other projects – was organizing the District 9910 / 9920 Challenge camp.



Fifteen Rotary International Youth Exchange Students were matched up with nineteen physically challenged local students – and sent to camp for 5 days of challenges and fun.
Many, many hours went into organizing this and it was loudly proclaimed as a huge success by all of those involved.

2010 was the Club’s 40th Anniversary – celebrated with many of our former members at a party
Our major fundraiser was the 8th Annual Soapbox Derby


President: Craiger Hargesheimer
Rotary Theme: Reach Within To Embrace Humanity
Matt approached Rotary with help to install garden beds on a spare patch of Council land and this was started at the District 9910 conference in March.
Further garden beds were required and Waitakere Rotary became involved with donation of materials and a Rotary/Community working bee to install them. The Council have since supplied water to the site and last seen the plants were thriving.

More about this on our Community page
Our second major project was the dining hall, composting toilet and water tank at Orap School on Malekula Island in Vanuatu
Our major fundraiser was the 9th Annual Soapbox Derby


President: Heather Pattison
Rotary Theme: Peace Through Service
Our two major Community Projects this year were renovations of two significant buildings:
- The Girl Guide Hall in Roby Street, Te Atatu and
- The community owned Ranui Action Project (RAP) House in Ranui

Prior to a full repaint rotten weatherboards needed replacing, screens needed rebuilding… and the list went on and on.
A Rotarian helped scope the work and with the invaluable assistance of a TTCF grant the building gained a new lease on life.
Full details of both these projects are on our Community page



President: Sheena Spittle
Rotary Theme: Engage Rotary, Change Lives

President: Patrick Howard
Rotary Theme: Light Up Rotary

President: Patrick Howard
Rotary Theme: Be a Gift to the World