Brighton North Rotary

03/06/2026

Over the past 6 years, EDM’s frontline prevention work has grown into a network of protection, restoration, and long-term care for vulnerable girls at risk of tr@fficking.

So far, together we have:

• Rescued 5376 girls from potential tr@fficking situations

• Established 13 border interception booths across high-risk regions

• Opened one emergency shelter alongside each booth for immediate crisis care

• Built 2 safe homes

• Expanded vocational training opportunities to help survivors rebuild independent futures

• Hired a dedicated aftercare coordinator to follow up with rescued girls and ensure they remain safe and thriving

• Provided trauma-informed support through 3 trained counsellors working directly with survivors

• Welcomed 215 girls into our safe homes since 2020

• Educated 113474 people about the dangers and warning signs of tr@fficking

• Handed 4690 tr@fficking cases over to police for law enforcement follow-up

• Reunited 4764 girls with their families before they were lost forever

But the need continues to grow.

Our next step is to fortify the booths already in place - putting more trained eyes on the ground, strengthening frontline protection, and increasing our ability to identify vulnerable girls before trafficking occurs.

Help us by sharing these stats with the world!

Help us by putting more eyes on the ground!
$52 sponsors a woman to work as a Traffic(k) Stopper for a week.
https://traffick-stoppers.raiselysite.com/

03/06/2026

Don’t miss out on your chance to catch the Dolphin Dilemma as a part of World Ocean’s day tomorrow night at the Mornington Yacht Club.
Join the Marine Mammal Foundation, along with the Mornington Yacht Club and Blairgowrie Yacht Squadron for our charity screening of the award-winning Dolphin Dilemma documentary, and hear from Dr Kate as she provides an update on MMF’s Port Phillip Bay Burrunan dolphin research.

To get involved and for more information, please head to the event booking page.

03/06/2026

28/05/2026

28/05/2026

Vocational and business awards were awarded last night to some amazing professionals. The professional excellence award was given to Katherine Cross, physio masseur at Physiotrain, Brighton . The excellence in Business was awarded to Styleyes optometry in Hampton. James Newbury MP our local member of parliament was presented with a friend of rotary award. Last year’s winners Baker’s Delight in Brighton were also in attendance to celebrate the new recipients.
Congrats to all of our amazing businesses and professionals of Bayside .

28/05/2026

President Anne receives an honorary membership and neck scarf from the Brighton 1st /14th sea scouts . We had a fun evening where we played games and had a very tasty bbq meal prepared by the scouts .

21/05/2026

Yesterday volunteers from Brighton and Brighton North Rotary spent a rewarding day helping Year 10s from Brighton Secondary College with job readiness. It was great to have the opportunity to support these young people by sharing lived vocational experience to prepare with mock interviews and reviewing of their resumes.

20/05/2026

This week is National Volunteer Week, where we acknowledge and celebrate all the amazing volunteers across Australia. Here at the Marine Mammal Foundation we support numerous volunteers, across many science, outreach and conservation roles. From undergraduate University students just starting out, to those in established professional careers, we could not achieve all that we do without their dedication and support. This week we will highlight some of our main volunteer programs.

Today we highlight our acoustics program. MMF utilises passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) to collect soundscape data in Port Phillip Bay and the Gippsland Lakes. Underwater soundtraps are deployed for 10 week periods and record sound for 5 minutes, every 20 minutes, 24 hours a day. This provides us with large volumes of data which is analysed for dolphin activity, distribution and behaviour, as well as environmental elements and vessel activity. Whilst we do utilise AI and deep learning programs, like PAMGuard, to narrow down our search for vocalisation, our volunteers will then visually and aurally inspect the files with positive detections to confirm their presence, and note general soundscape noises, such as vessels, snapping shrimp, ray thunks and many more.

20/05/2026

Happy national volunteers’ week ! We’d like to to a moment to thank all of our Rotarians and friends of rotary who come out to help at all of our community service and fundraising events . People helping people make the world a better place 🥰