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Introduction
What's Interact?

    "International Understanding" which come from "I", "N", "T", "E", "R"; The alphabet "A" means "Aim at Service", "C" which means "Communication with others", and finally "Training of leadership" from the alphabet "T". These are the four aims of INTERACT.


    As a youth club sponsored by a Mother Rotary Club, Interact set a high goal on serving the community and training young leaders. In our District, 3450, there are totally 40 Interact Clubs, 1 from Macau, 1 from Mongolia and 37 from HK, which are all on school-basis. They made up 2000 Interactors. The eldest Interact Club is the Interact Club of Saint Joseph's College, which was established in the year 1966. While the youngest Interact Club is the Interact Club of Ho Fung College, it was newly formed this year. Last year, there were only 21, this incidents that the no. of Interact Club is growing and it also means that Interact is reaching out to more and more people in our District.


    In a district with more than 5 Interact Clubs, a joint organization can be set up, in our district, it is called the Joint Interact Council. This year, the aim of the Joint Interact Council is "Be an Interactor, be Interactive". Each month, the JIC held a Joint Presidents Meeting, all the Presidents of the member schools will attend this meeting to discuss the latest event of Joint Interact Council and matter arises from their own Clubs.

     There are altogether 9 committee in the JIC, one District Interact Representative (DIR), 2 Vice-president, 2 Secretaries, 2 Public-relations-officers, a treasurer and an International Understanding Director. And the advisor of the Joint Interact Council is the District Interact Committee Chairman (DICC). The Joint Interact Council serves as a bridge among all the 23 Interact Clubs in the district, and it help to improve the communication between Interact and Rotary as well as Rotaract.


    Each Interact Club has usually one to two Presidents, and a group of executive committee is under the supervision of the President(s). The group size vary from 8 to 20 due to the different scale of their own Clubs and school policy. Each Club also has one to four teacher advisors; their job is to take care of running of the Club inside the school. The Interact Club President will have constant meetings with their Mother Club, that is their Sponsoring Rotary Club. This sponsoring Rotary Club consist of not less than five Rotarians, President need to work with their Rotary Advisors, who are in fact, their partners-in-service. No meeting of the Deemed official unless a member of the Interact committee of the sponsoring Rotary club is in attendance.

Member Schools:

Saint Joseph's College
Raimondi College
Saint Paul's College
New Method College
Lingnan Secondary School
La Salle College
Shau Kei Wan East Government Secondary School
Maryknoll Convent School
Marymount Secondary School
Lok Sin Tang Ku Chiu Man Secondary School
Ying Wa College
Yuen Long Merchant's Association Secondary School
Hong Kong International School
Hong Kong Tang King Po College
Saint Mark's School
Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School
Anglican Choi Kou Middle School (Macau)
Clementi Secondary School
Wan Yan College Hong Kong
Cheung Chau Government Secondary School
Belilios Public School
Ho Fung College
Ying Wa Girl's School
C.C.C. Rotary School
S.B.C. Hui Chung Sing Memorial School
Buddish Wai Yan Memorial College

What is Rotaract?
 

    Rotaract clubs are part of a global effort to bring peace and international understanding to the world. This effort starts at the community level but knows no limits in its outreach. Rotaractors have access to many resources of Rotary Foundation. Rotary International provides the administrative support that helps Rotaract clubs thrive.


    Each Rotaract club is sponsored by a local Rotary club. This sponsorship is a result of Rotary's concern that young people, or "New Generations", should take an active interest in community life and have the opportunity for professional development. Rotaract provides a vehicles through which New Generations can find that involvement.


    The Rotaract program gives Rotarians the opportunity to mentor dynamic young men and women interested in providing service to their own communities and the global community. Rotarians also serve as resources foe Rotaractors who are in the process of becoming professionals and community leaders. In turn, a Rotaract club can bring new energy to a Rotary club, inspire fresh ideas for service, increase support to projects, and help develop future Rotary club members.


    Rotaract clubs are self-governed and largely self-financed at the local level. Working in cooperation with their sponsoring Rotary clubs as partners-in-service, Rotaractors are an important part of Rotary's extended family.


    You might ask, "What exactly does a Rotaract club do?" Rotaract club organize a variety of projects and activities, depending primarily on the interests of the club members. There are, however, three types of activities within the Rotaract program that all clubs undertake in varying degrees: professional development, leadership development, and service projects. Together these three areas ensure a balanced club program and provide important experience and opportunities for the personal development of each Rotaractor.


What is Rotary?
 

The object of Rotary:
 
    The object of Rotary is to encourage and foster the ideal of service as a basis of worthy enterprise and, in particular, to encourage and foster;
 
1) The development of acquaintance as an opportunity for service;  
2) High ethical standards in business and professions; the recognition of the worthiness of all useful occupations; and the dignifying by each Rotarian of his occupation as an opportunity to serve society;  
3) The application of the ideal of service by every Rotarian to his personal, business, and community life;  
4) The advancement of international understanding, goodwill, peace through a world fellowship of business and professional men united in the ideal of service.

The birth of Rotary:
 
The Rotary movement was born in Chicago, USA, in 1905, at a dinner party attended by a lawyer named Paul P, Harris and three of his friends. Harris had arrived in the city some years earlier and had found it cold and unfriendly compared with the small town he grew up in.
 
    An idea gradually formed in his mind: that of starting a club where people of different trades and professions could meet, make friends with one another, and explore business opportunities.
 
    His friends - coal dealer, a mining engineer and a merchant tailor - agreed. They resolved to start the world's first Rotary Club. The name was suggested by Harris because it was originally intended that they meet in rotation at the member' business premises.
 
    Response to the new origination was enthusiastic. Although membership was by invitation only, it soon became impractical to continue gathering at members' workplaces, so regular weekly meetings were inaugurated at a restaurant or hotel. Other familiar Rotary customs began back in those early days. Group singing was introduced as a means to enhance the atmosphere of fellowship. The club appointed an Official Greeter to welcome members and their guests as they arrived.
 
    The idea of having just one member from each trade or profession was also adopted right at the outset. This was intended both to provide a balance and variety in members' interests and perhaps to prevent any sense of business rivalry from disrupting the conviviality of the gatherings.
 
    Although the club's original aim was to provide a social and business forum, it was not long before members turned their attention to opportunities for mutual-help and - beyond that - to ways the club - could assist the community at large. The Rotary ideal of "Service Above Self" evolved form modest projects undertaken by the first club. It is a motto that has guided Rotary's development into a world wide endeavor for the betterment of Mankind.
 
    People in other US cities got to hear about the Chicago club. Harris decided to launch a campaign to spread the Rotary idea far and wide.
 
    Club number 2 was founded in San Francisco. California, in 1908 followed shortly after wards by Club 3 in nearby Oakland, Club 4 in Seattle on the US northwest coast and Club 5 in Los Angeles.
 
    Rotarians held their first national convention in August 1910, attended by delegates form fourteen of the sixteen clubs then in existence. This meeting formed the National Association of Rotary Clubs with Paul Harris as its first President.
 
    Three months later the first club was founded outside the United States, in Winnipeg , Canada . The following year saw the birth of clubs in Dublin, London and Glasgow. Rotary began to take roots throughout the world. This international dimension was recognized when the 1912 convention agreed to change "National" to "International" in the Association's title. The name was abbreviated to Rotary International 1942, the name by which the movement's unifying organization has been known ever since.
 
    In one of his speeches, Paul Harris described Rotary as: " A miniature model of a world at peace, one which might advantageously be studied by nations. Rotarians believe that the universal application of tolerance and friendliness would bring about the international peace so earnestly desired by everyone."
 
    The "Four Avenues of Service", officially adopted by Rotary in 1927, can be seen not only as a statement of ideas but also as a concrete plan of action to be fulfilled by member clubs throughout the world. They are: Club Service, Vocational Service and International Service.
 
    On the world scene, the Rotary Foundation of Rotary International came into being in 1928. It has grown to the stage where it is today one of the world's largest bodies granting scholarships for international study.
 
    The Grants for the Health, Hunger and Humanity (3-H) programme was launches in 1979 to commemorate Rotary's 75th Anniversary. Its goal is "to improve health, alleviate to advancing international understanding, goodwill and peace."
 
    Rotary now has over one million members throughout the world. Clubs exist in almost 188 countries. Wherever they live, be it Lagos in Nigeria, Oslo in Norway, Tokyo in Japan or Athens in Greece, Rotarians are putting their ideals into practice, both through the collective efforts made by each club for deserving causes and by the instilling of a sense of good citizenship and high moral standards in each member's everyday business and personal life.

 

 
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