RYLA Candidates
The Rotary Club of Waitakere City hosted the District 9910 RYLA (Rotary Young Leadership Award) camp in April 2005 at Mt Albert Grammar. It is traditional that one night at RYLA is Rotary night when the Rotarians of both the Hosting Club and RYLA sponsors come to dinner. This dinner in 2005 was held on board the “Pacific Mermaid”.

RYLA team 2005

Rotarian Domenic welcoming an awardee

Oliver Vovchenko, the Waitakere awardee

Oli, far right, with his team

Deep in a project

Speaker Bev Roberts with Rotarians Bob Benzie, Monique Mataga and Theo Van Lier

Visitors with Rotarian Kerry McMillan

A team building exercise

Awardees with Rotarian Peter Smith

Rotarian Terry Hodges with the awardees

Rotarian John Ritchie with Rotarian and Captain of the “Pacific Mermaid” on the RYLA/Rotary night dinner

Rotarian Ivan Yukich, Rachel Ritchie and awardees

A visitor with Rotarians John Ritchie, Ken Dixon and Rachel Ritchie

Rotarians Derek Gee, Domenic Wood and Monique Mataga with a visitor

Our Young Leaders.
Start as strangers, end as life long friends
The following people sponsored by our Club have attended RYLA over the years:
NOTE: This list is a “work in progress”
2013 | ![]() | Shatil Adib Ahmed | Shatil came to Rotary as our guest speaker in June 2013 full of passion about how amazing RYLA is and how much he learned. June Bulletin |
2012 | ![]() | Hamish Mackay and Shyam Rai | |
2011 | ![]() | Eddie Tuiavii | Eddie came to Rotary as our guest speaker in June 2011 and gave a glowing account of the camp. Details in our weekly Club Bulletin |
2010 | ![]() | Alexander Hawera | Alex came to our meeting as guest speaker in September 2012 Details in our weekly Club Bulletin Alex's comment was "Of all the Leadership course I have done this is absolutely the best" |
2005 | ![]() | Oliver Vovchenko | We also sponsored Oli to an Outward Bound course in January 2005 |
1991 | Christine Dunn | ||
1990 | Paula Macks Janien Raper | ||
1987 | Karun McClurkin Sherryn Flower Craig Eaton | ||
1986 | Jennifer Vla Andrew Mee Kevin Barker | ||
1985 | Levonne Underwood | ||
1982 | Sandra Pearce Dalla Labrum | ||
1981 | Michael Nicholson | ||
1974 | Peter Harrison | ||
1972 | Susan and John Pringle | ||
1970 | Lynn Brownlees |
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