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.
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
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"
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"
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
Hamish Mackay and Shyam Rai
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
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"
Oliver Vovchenko
We also sponsored Oli to an Outward Bound course in January 2005
Janien Raper
Sherryn Flower
Craig Eaton
Andrew Mee
Kevin Barker
Dalla Labrum