About Rotary District 9350

60+ Rotary clubs working across the Western Cape, Northern Cape, Namibia and Angola — turning local generosity into lasting change for the communities we live in.

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District 9350 today

Rotary clubs
countries — SA, Namibia, Angola
+ Rotarians & Rotaractors

People of Action

A worldwide network of 1.4 million members across 46,000 clubs who use their skills, time and resources to address community needs at home and abroad. In our footprint that’s 70+ clubs and around 1,700 Rotarians + Rotaractors running projects every week of the year.

Service Above Self

Rotary’s motto. Our work is the work of members who decide what their community needs and lead the projects that meet it — medical equipment for under-resourced hospitals, ECD school upgrades, water and sanitation, youth leadership, polio eradication.

Becoming a member

Membership is by invitation through an existing club, but the practical path is: visit a meeting, get to know the work, accept a sponsorship from a current member. Club dues cover meeting costs and Rotary International + district fees; the project work itself is funded by member contributions and the Rotary Foundation. Visit a club — meetings are open to guests.

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The Rotary Foundation

The Foundation channels member donations into global grants, district grants, scholarships and the polio-eradication endgame. Every member club in D9350 can apply for grant funding to scale a local project, often jointly with sister clubs overseas. Foundation giving is the strongest leverage member dollars unlock in Rotary.

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Where we focus

Peace

Building peace and resolving conflict so communities can thrive.

Disease prevention

Stopping the spread of disease and supporting access to treatment.

Water & sanitation

Clean water, working toilets and hygiene education for healthier lives.

Mother & child health

Mothers and children surviving and growing up healthy.

Education

Reading, writing and learning that open doors out of poverty.

Economic development

Helping people earn, save and run businesses in their own community.

Environment

Protecting land, water and air so future generations inherit a livable planet.

Recent projects

Live from our clubs’ district Stories portal — a sample of what “people of action” looks like in practice across D9350.

Dental Clinic for Nomzamo
South African and Swedish Rotary Clubs raise funds for the refurbishment of a Dental Clinic for the Community of Nomzamo. Thanks to the multifaceted Partnership the Clinic will now be able to offer a range of dental preventative care, including dental hyg

Dental Clinic for Nomzamo

2026-06-05

Dental Clinic for Nomzamo South African and Swedish Rotary Clubs raise funds for the refurbishment of a Dental Clinic for the Community of Nomzamo. Thanks to the multifaceted Partnership the Clinic will now be able to offer a range of dental preventative care, including dental hygiene services and oral hygiene education.
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Children's library interior, Weltevredenpark Public Library, South Africa (Gwyneth Perry, CC0)
School Libraries Score with a Global Grant Global Grant #1527314 was recently awarded by The Rotary Foundation to the The Rotary Club of Waterfront for their School Libraries Development Project. The process for securing the above Global Grant (GG) starte

Literacy Project - Global Grant

2026-06-05

Literacy Project - Global Grant School Libraries Score with a Global Grant Global Grant #1527314 was recently awarded by The Rotary Foundation to the The Rotary Club of Waterfront for their School Libraries Development Project. The process for securing the above Global Grant (GG) started in 2014. During 2015 this complex process continued requiring considerable work from five RC Waterfront Members. We battled to garner sufficient support from Rotary Clubs, companies and individuals to cover the minimum seed fund of US$ 15 000, and to gather the available District Designated Funds (DDF) contributions. Each funding source required official authorization, and many corrections and updates were necessary. On 6 June 2015 the GG Application was submitted to The Rotary Foundation (TRF). However a further delay ensued when TRF insisted on copies of signed MOU's from all the project’s ten schools, plus a written endorsement from the Western Cape Education Department which took 2 months to procure. On 1 September 2015 the GG Application was finally approved by TRF for US$ 57 429. The final contributing Clubs were: Waterfront Rotary Club, Sunrise Rotary Club of Alturas, New Brunswick Rotary Club, New Jersey Rotary Club and Etobicoke Rotary Club. But before the grant payment could be made it was necessary to :- (i)    Arrange the Project Bank Account (ii)   Get authorization of the GG legal document, and (iii)  Confirm the cash contribution. This also proved to be a slow process. The Global Grant funds were finally received by RC Waterfront in March 2016 allowing the Project to commence.
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