Developing leadership skills and personal integrity

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INTERACT

• Developing leadership skills and personal
  integrity
• Demonstrating helpfulness and respect for others
• Advancing international understanding and goodwill

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What is Interact?

• Interact is Rotary International's service club
  for young people ages 14-18, usually based in
  schools.
• Interact clubs are sponsored by local Rotary
  clubs, that provide support and guidance, but
  Interact clubs are self-governing and
  self-supporting.
• Each year, Interact clubs complete at least two
  community service projects, one of which furthers
  international understanding and goodwill, the
  other for the local community.

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What is Interact?

• Through projects, Interactors develop a network
  of friendships with local and overseas clubs. In
  the process, Interactors develop leadership
  skills and learn the value of community service.
• Since 1962 it is one of the most significant and
  fastest-growing youth programs of Rotary service,
  with more than 247,000 members in 10,700 Interact
  clubs in 120 countries. Interact has become a
  worldwide phenomenon.

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BRAZIL

• Interactors and Rotarians from Santa Mariana
  display items collected in an activity
  celebrating World Interact Week.

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BRAZIL

• Members of the Interact club of Guaratingueta
  work to Preserve Planet Earth.

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PERU

• Interactors from the San Roque display dolls and
  childrens clothing they donated to needy
  children in their community.

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SRI LANKA

• Teachers at the school-based Interact club of Sri
  Sumangala Central College volunteer with an
  Interact service project to improve their school.

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ZAMBIA

• Interactors at Ibenga Secondary School help clean
  a local childrens hospital with their sponsoring
  Rotary club to celebrate World Interact Week.

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ARGENTINA

• Members of the Interact club of Barraquero work
  with children in their community.

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PHILIPPINES

• Interactors at Rosario Institute give gifts to
  their "adopted" elementary school.

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BRAZIL

• Environmental service projects are a priority for
  Interactors in the Curitiba Avenida das Torres
  club and their Rotarian sponsors.

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INDIA

• Interactors from Vidya Vikasini Matriculation
  Higher Secondary School collected and donated
  used books for a middle school library in their
  community.

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USA

• The Interact Club of Herscher High School
  addressed world hunger by conducting a service
  project to feed children.

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UGANDA

• Interactors from the Katatumba Academy have some
  fun while helping the young children in their
  community.

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PERU

• The Interact Club of San Roque is sponsored by
  the Rotary Club of Chacarilla del Estanque.

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INDIA

• Members of the Interact Club of St. Joseph
  Marys School entertain the elderly for one of
  their World Interact Week activities.

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BRAZIL

• The Interact Club of Indaial deliver a message
  about the dangers of drug use.

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ENGLAND

• The Interact Club of Mirfield works in
  conjunction with its sponsoring Rotary club.

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MALAYSIA

• Interactors from SMK Raja Perempuan display their
  dedication to eradicating polio.

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BRAZIL

• The Interact club of Ilha Solteira along with its
  sponsoring Rotary club, raised funds for
  wheelchairs for the disabled.

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PUERTO RICO

• Members of the Interact Club of Commonwealth High
  School in San Juan helped to decorate a senior
  citizens' home as part of the club's World
  Interact Week activities.

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USA

• The Interact Club of Mountain View High School
  poses at Bowers Museum in Santa Ana following a
  banner presentation sponsored by the Rotary Club
  of Santa Ana North.

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USA

• The Interact Club of Delone Catholic High School,
  McSherrystown partnered with the Leukemia
  Lymphoma Society in a program called "Pennies for
  Patients."

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SRI LANKA

• The Interact Clubs of Visakha Vidyalaya and St.
  Peter's College organized the first youth forum
  on violence against women to be carried out
  across Sri Lanka.

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USA

• With the support of the Rotary Club of Keene,
  N.H., USA, 25 youths from the Interact Club of
  Keene High School travelled to El Salvador

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JAPAN

• A group of 50 Japanese Interactors from Fukui,
  Shiga, Nara, and Kyoto, travelled to Thailand to
  donate hearing aids to a school for the deaf.

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AUSTRALIA

• The Interact Club of Como raised funds to deliver
  to over 600 students in 4 poor Bali schools
  education needs.

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AUSTRALIA

• Their International project for this year is
  drilling for water in a village in East Timor.

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Some established clubs

• Ursula Frayne Catholic College
• Como Secondary College
• Duncraig Secondary College

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Endorsed Program?

• We are in the process of submitting our
  application to the Curriculum Council for next
  months meeting and hope to be an endorsed program
  for the 2008 school year.

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Would like to know more?

• Contact Shayne Sherman on 9222 3565 or e-mail at
  shayne.sherman_at_doir.wa.gov.au