MUNA is an annual two-day weekend event that is part of a global Rotary project to educate senior high school students (years 10 - 12) on the United Nations organisation and its vital commitment to world peace, in addition to health, education and living standards around the world. MUNA provides an excellent forum for students to develop and practice their public speaking skills whilst debating on topical world issues.

Teams of three students, take on their nominated country, undertake research, quite often dress in their countries traditional clothes and debate International issues - in a simulated model united nations 

MORE INFORMATION IS AVAILABLE BY CIKCKING ON THE FOLLOWING LINK    https://www.muna.com.au

Rotary clubs are grass-roots volunteer service teams supported by local, regional, and international administrative networks of volunteers. District 9685 is the local support network for Rotary clubs from the Blue Mountains to the Northern Beaches to the Central Coast of NSW.

Rotary District 9685 hosts Model United Nations Assemblies in three regions each year:

Northern Sydney   (Parramatta - Hawkesbury River - Northern Beaches)
Western Sydney   (Parramatta - Richmond - Blue Mountains)
Central Coast   (Hawkesbury River - Toukley)

The first placed team in each region will be invited to compete at the Australian National Model United Nations
at the Old Parliament House in Canberra, with financial support from Rotary.

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An estimated 500 million people worldwide became infected. Many cities closed theaters and cinemas, and placed restrictions on public gatherings. Rotary clubs adjusted their activities while also helping the sick.

This is how Rotary responded to the influenza pandemic that began in 1918 and came in three waves, lasting more than a year.

The Rotary Club of Berkeley, California, USA, meets in John Hinkel Park during the 1918 flu pandemic.

Photo by Edwin J. McCullagh, 1931-32 club president. Courtesy of the Rotary Club of Berkeley.

Rotary and the United Nations have a shared history of working toward peace and addressing humanitarian issues around the world.

During World War II, Rotary informed and educated members about the formation of the United Nations and the importance of planning for peace. Materials such as the booklet “From Here On!” and articles in The Rotarian helped members understand the UN before it was formally established and follow its work after its charter. 

Many countries were fighting the war when the term “United Nations” was first used officially in the 1942 “Declaration by United Nations.” The 26 nations that signed it pledged to uphold the ideals expressed by the United States and the United Kingdom the previous year of the common principles “on which they based their hopes for a better future for the world.” 

Every hero has an origin story. “I was 10 years old when the entire journey started,” explains Binish Desai. It began with a cartoon called Captain Planet, an animated TV series from the 1990s about an environmentalist with superpowers. Desai can still recite the show’s refrain: Captain Planet, he’s our hero / Gonna take pollution down to zero! “That tagline stuck in my mind,” he says. “I wanted to do something to help Captain Planet.”

In early 1919, Rotarian Roger Pinneo of Seattle, Washington, USA, traveled to the Philippines to try to organize a Rotary club in Manila. Leon J. Lambert, a Manila business leader helped Pinneo establish the club. Several months later, on 1 June 1919, the Rotary Club of Manila was chartered and became the first Rotary club in Asia.

The club would be the only one in the country for more than 12 years. Eventually, Manila club members organized Rotary clubs in the Philippine cities of Cebu (1932) and Iloilo (1933). Iloilo club members then started a club in Bacolod (1937), and Rotary continued to expand across the country.