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C.D.C.I. WEST Interact Club Description: |
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Interact
is a service club for high school students sponsored by Rotary International .
This unique club allows our students to develop leadership skills and
increase social awareness while organizing and participating in fun and
meaningful humanitarian service projects. Interact
clubs must perform at least two projects each year, one which serves the local
community and another which furthers international understanding. Through their
involvement, Interact Club members learn the importance of: developing personal integrity and initiative
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"The
purpose of life is a life of purpose.” - Robert Byrne -
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INTERACT CLUB
PAST INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS 2001
- 02:
we raised $4100 for “Sleeping Children Around the World”
(SCAW) and purchased 136 bed kits for needy children in Bangladesh and
Honduras. 2002
- 03:
Global Polio Eradication Initiative – we raised $2300 for Rotary
International’s “PolioPlus” program and provided enough
polio vaccine to immunize over 3000 children in India. 2003
- 04:
$2300 was raised for “Kids Can Free the Children”
(an international network of children helping children through education) to
provide alternate income (in the form of cows) for two families, 30 school kits
for the children and a clean water program for the entire village of Masai Mara
in Kenya. 2004
- 05:
The “Free the Children” organization
continued to inspire our members and $4047 was raised and is being used
to assist in the construction of a new primary school in China to help to give
the gift of education to hundreds of children –
for more information, see our “Overview of 2004-05"
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“Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens |
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Dare Lucem - To Give Light |
“Never
doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens
can change the world.
Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has”
- Margaret Mead -