Last Saturday, Chris, Alex and I went to an Interact Club kickoff party for District 5160, which is the California Region of Rotary International. Essentially, Interact is the high school branch of Rotary. Judith Glass, this year’s President of the Berkeley Rotary club, has high hopes for creating a community based Interact club this year, and the teens are excited to begin program planning.
Like other Rotary club events I’ve attended in the past, this kickoff party was full of great networking opportunities and camaraderie. It was great to meet other high school students who possessed a similar desire to change the world and be leaders in their community, just like the Teen Task Force is doing right now with our project.
I learned that the work of the local Interact clubs stretches to the very far corners of the world. One popular project that many clubs participated in was the eyeglasses drive. The clubs collected used eyeglasses from community members, and shipped them to third world countries, where access to such basic necessities is limited. I really enjoyed learning about both the local and global focuses of Rotary International. As we go forward with trying to get our own club off the ground, we are looking forward to a strong partnership with Berkeley Rotary club. If everything goes well, we should have a club up and running before the Teen Center opens, so that we can launch a big service project once the Teen Center opens in November 2010!
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