Did you know?
Every year, World Interact
Week is celebrated the week of 5 November. Besides
participating in service projects, Interactors learn
leadership skills and meet new friends. Check out a
few facts about Interact, Rotary International’s
service club for young people ages 14-18:
- Interact was
inaugurated in 1962 in Melbourne, Florida, USA.
- There are 3,050
Interact clubs in Canada and the United States.
- There are 247,043
Interactors and 10,741 Interact clubs worldwide,
sponsored by 8,464 Rotary clubs.
- Rotary clubs in about
120 countries and geographical areas sponsor
Interact clubs.
- The 1,000th Interact
club is located in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Want to learn more? Check
out the
Interact
page or download the
Interact brochure
Interact is Rotary International's
service club for young people ages 14-18. Interact clubs are
sponsored by individual Rotary clubs, which provide support and
guidance, but Interact clubs are self-governing and
self-supporting. Club membership varies greatly. The
membership base can be drawn from the student body of a single
school or from two or more schools from the same community
Each year, Interact clubs complete at
least two service projects, one a 'home' project to benefit
their school or local community, and one an 'away' project to
benefit people abroad and to further international understanding
and goodwill
Examples of 'home' projects are bulb
planting, litter picking and providing food parcels to the needy
and elderly - especially at Christmas
Examples of 'away' projects are
Aquaboxes and Rotary Shoeboxes (see International pages on this
site). Pictured below, the Interact Club of Bewdley has worked
with Rotary and the Wheelchair Foundation to provide wheelchairs
for disabled adults and children in Romania. They even
delivered them themselves!
Through their projects, Interactors
develop a network of friendships with local and overseas clubs.
In the process, Interactors develop leadership skill and learn
the value of hard work
As one of the most significant and
fastest-growing programs of Rotary service, with more than 8,600
Interact clubs in some 110 countries and geographical areas,
Interact has become a worldwide phenomenon
Ken Pheysey (Rotary Club of Bromsgrove) is
the Youth Activities Committee member responsible for Interact.
He is keen to help Rotary Clubs set up more Interact Clubs
