Last Sunday a wonderful group of rotarians and interactors planted another 600 trees in Tawa. This is our second planting for 2024. Due to the numbers of volunteers it required only an hour or two activity and the team got a lovely view of the trees they have planted in previous years. It was great to see how they were thriving. 

This morning RCPN meeting attendees received a talk from Finn Messerli – representing Generation Zero (a climate advocacy organisation).

Peter retired from Cullen Law and as a Rotarian has established the Democracy Project which was the topic of his talk.  Peter talked about the recent election results and how things like AI and social media has changed the world for the better and the worse on the latter he outlined that in the past some opinions were previously ignored but now these comments are competing with Politicians via social media.   Peter decided to do something to try and strengthen democracy in NZ with the help of Donna Dentice and Ian McKinnon they are providing Workshops for secondary school students with the aim to improve young peoples understanding of civil service and democracy.  

Police Sargeant Brendon Paul is one of seven youth aid officers in Wellington city
“trying to put things in place to stop youth offending.”
He told the club this week that 80 percent of “the kids we deal with don’t come back,
but about five percent come back frequently.”