Several projects are undertaken each year, some of short duration, some stretching over a longer period. Some are described below. The Club assists in Rotary's worldwide efforts towards the eradication of polio. Community Service projects include playgrounds and warm clothing for infants at the Kungwini Early Learning Centre, establishing a vegetable garden and planting trees at Kungwini, AIDS orphans at the St Joseph's Care Centre at Sizanani, the Paedeatric Oncology Ward at Kalafong Hospital, the Horizon Care Centre for Profoundly Handicapped Children, the Eersterust Care Centre, support to the Andeon Farm for the destitute (together with the Rotary Club of Pretoria West), distribution of wheelchairs (co-ordinated by the Rotary Club of Brits), AIDS education at schools, and supplemental feeding projects at five schools. Some of these were undertaken with Matching Grants from The Rotary Foundation and with support from overseas Rotary Clubs. Vocational service projects include educational visits for scholars from local schools, computer centres for two less well-endowed schools, and career information days.
The Club has, for a period of almost ten years, assisted with the provision of facilities for the Kutumela Molefi Middle School, which presently has some 400 scholars, most of whom are the children of farm workers. The School is situated on the farm Swartkoppies to the East of Pretoria, on property originally owned by Sammy Marks.
The Club has assisted with the construction and furnishing of several classrooms, ablution blocks, provision and maintenance of a borehole and electricity generator, establishing and equipping a library, and provision of sports equipment. This has been achieved by Club work parties, with funding provided by the Club, several international Rotary partner clubs, the Branscombe Foundation, and Rotary Foundation matching grants. The Rotary Club of Los Altos, California, was a recent partner in the provision of a second ablution block, and the Rotary Club of Sariyer, Istanbul, a partner in the provision of an electricity generator, sports equipment, and dictionaries, under a World Community Service Project. Since then ESKOM mains electricity has been provided. A later project established a computer centre at the school.
Camp Quality, an international support programme for terminally ill children, originated in Australia in 1983. To date, 25 locations in six different countries have been established. Camp Quality's motto says that no one can affect the quanitity of someone else's life, but everyone can affect its quality.PP Derek Stedall became the co-ordinator of Camp Quality in South Africa, an annual project in Pretoria since 1994 which has now spread from Nelspruit and Pretoria to Cape Town and Durban.
Derek Stedall and Duncan's Trust have recently begun working with the Hole in the Wall Camps and have been part of an initiative to establish the Just Footprints Foundation for children with life-threatening illnesses. The founding partners of the Foundation are CHOC Childhood Cancer Foundation of SA, the Reach for a Dream Foundation, the Hope (Ithemba) Trust, and Cotlands. The Foundation runs several Footprints Camps each year, where Derek serves as Camp Director.
Each of the Camp Footprints camps run by the Just Footprints Foundation requires a large team to be established to support the 75 children, and PP Derek Stedall is full of praise for the dedication of the members of these teams. In 2008 the Pretoria Sunrise Rotary Club chose three members of these teams for its annual Vocational Service Awards: