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INTERACT

District 9690 Assembly Presentation

Roger Vince

What is Interact?

Interact is an international organization that fosters leadership

and responsible citizenship and promotes international

understanding and peace

The Club

• The name was created by combining the words "international" and "action."

• Interact is a service club for young people ages 14-18.

• Clubs take a variety of forms, both single-gender and mixed as well as large and small.

• The membership base of a club can be drawn from the student body of a single school or from two or more schools from the same community.

Rotary Involvement

• Interact clubs are sponsored by Rotary clubs as a program of Rotary International.

• Rotary clubs provide guidance and inspiration.

• Interact clubs are self-governing and self-supporting.

Nature of a Club

• Be school-based or community-based;

• Have a Rotarian adviser and a faculty adviser for school-based clubs;

• Meet at least twice a month.

• Interactors must attend 60% of regularly scheduled meetings;

• Require no financial support from the sponsoring Rotary club.

Resources

• Brochure as a handout• Hard copies of brochure 600/EN and handbook 654/EN

are available at RI Parramatta Office 2nd Floor 100 George St, Parramatta telephone 9635 3537 Downloadable copies from RI website http://www.rotary.org click on the “students and Youth” tab then click on Interact then look at the links under related documents

• District Committee: Chairperson, contact me, rogervince@bigpond.com

• Slide Show / talk online at www.strathfieldrotary.org.au scroll to the interact link (note: brochure and handbook are also available at this website)