It will take the affected residents who were so badly hurt with loss of homes and possessions a long time to recover but the combined Rotary clubs of the Central Coast have mightily contributed to that recovery.
Over the course of fund raising direct community donations totalled $29000, a wonderful and generous effort. To that Central Coast Rotary clubs contributed another $15000 and this amount was matched, dollar for dollar by Rotary's own charity kept for global emergencies bringing the Rotary total to $30000.
Combined with community contributions this $59000 will all be distributed as promptly as possible. $57000 is being returned at the time of writing. 25 homes were seriously damaged with 16 of those completely destroyed and the balance of $2000 will be passed to the local SES to replenish items used in their relief effort.
As always with Rotary all inputs were provided completely free of charge on a voluntary basis and there were zero administration costs passed on. All incidental costs incurred by rotarians are met by those rotarians themselves.
Rotary remains ready to offer further assistance.
Science and Engineering Challenge 2025 celebrated it's 25th anniversary this year. Back in 2000 the University of Newcastle noticed it's enrolments in Engineering were falling and it decided to do something about it.
