Projects

Each year Rotary clubs can participate in a number of Youth Programs designed to enhance young lives. Below is a selection of programs that we hope young people on the Coffs Coast and within our Rotary District might want to be involved in:

The Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits in paired areas of different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.

The Coffs Coast Ocean swim is a fun, charity fundraising event which offers participants a choice of three distances which caters for both the novice and the more competitive with a 250 metre, 600 metre and two kilometre swim. There's never any shortage of swimmers among the hundreds of competitors each year who tackle all three events.

The Rotary Club of Coffs Harbour Daybreak plays a fundamental role in organising the annual Coffs Coast Ocean Swims, with members working tirelessly on the day to register swimmers and co-ordinate each event.

Project Volunteers is the name now given to the well established FAIM program which relates to the Fourth Object of Rotary. The first team of 47 Rotarians went to Indonesia in 1964 on a goodwill mission with work as the meeting point.

The concept of volunteers going to a developing country to provide facilities and skills training became so successful that in 1971 FAIM (Fourth Avenue in Motion) became a national organisation.