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“Happiness is Helping Others”Interact is a Rotary – sponsored international service club for young people. Founded in 1962, Interact stands for International Action. The first club was established in the USA but the movement quickly spread to many other parts of the world. Today there are 7945 Interact Clubs in 108 countries, with around 182,740 members. In the Brisbane region there are 23 Interact Clubs in high schools and colleges. History Members Community Projects School Projects International Projects Fundraising Photographs
of our Club Projects Some of the community projects we
have been involved in: Ø
Marching in Caboolture Anzac Day parade Ø Raising
money for cancer research by holding a stall on the “biggest morning tea for
cancer” day (combined with the liturgy group) Ø
Donation to Smith Family Christmas Appeal ($50) Ø
Donation to B105 Christmas Appeal ($50) Ø Putting
up a Christmas Tree in the Children’s Ward at Caboolture Hospital Ø
Delivering Easter eggs to all wards at Caboolture hospital Ø Making
a donation to Camp Quality ($200) Ø
Donation to K-Mart Christmas Toy appeal ($50) Ø
Donating toys to the Salvation Army Christmas Appeal Ø Cooking
biscuits and slices for morning/afternoon teas for 2 scout camps Ø
Collecting used stamps Ø
Participating in Clean-up Australia Day 2002 Ø
Donating $500 to St Gabriel’s Centre for Deaf Toddlers Ø Working
with the Community Service Committee to “adopt” the drain which borders the
school and flows into Lagoon Creek (2002) Ø 2002:
Selling Rotary Ribbons to benefit the Australian Rotary Health Research Fund in
their research into mental health. Some of the fund-raising ideas the club has
tried: ã
Car washes ã
Icy-cup stall ã
Chocolate drives ã
Jelly cup stall ã
Chocolate crackle stall ã
Mother’s Day and Father’s Day stall ã
Cooking and serving meal for Rotary Club meeting ã
Spider stall ã
Easter Raffle St. Columban’s College is a Catholic Co-educational College at 100 McKean St Caboolture. The college was originally situated at Albion Heights in Brisbane for almost 70 years before relocating to the Caboolture Campus in 1997. The school has an enrolment of approximately 700 students and draws students from a wide area surrounding Caboolture, including Morayfield, Burpengary, Bribie Island, Kilcoy, Wamuran, Ekibin, Deception Bay, Kallangur and Narangba. The St. Columban’s College Interact Club is
sponsored by the Rotary Club of Caboolture and was chartered in 1998 with 15
members. In 2002 the membership has expanded to over 60 members. Presidents:
1998:
Kate Johnson
1999:
Kate Johnson 2000:
Allana Parsons 2001:
Kate Sullivan 2002:
Kimberley Walker 2002 Board:
Vice president:
Kate Sullivan Secretary:
Justin Bone
Treasurer:
Leianne Wriede
International Service: Adele Johnson
Community Service:
Marie Heystraten
School Service:
Sharn Griffins
Club Service:
Kellie Biggin Teachers:
Mrs Sherryl Gregory
Meeting Times: Every Friday at the meeting bell in L1.1 E
HELPING CHILDREN SMILE TEDDY BEAR PROJECT Every
year the students make small teddy bears to send to the Philippines in February
with the Helping Children Smile surgical team . The team performs up to 50
operations for hare lips and cleft palates in
2 weeks each year. The teddy bears are given to each child after their
operations as comforters. E
BLACKBOARDS FOR PAPUA NEW GUINEA In 2001 the students have made 48 blackboards sized 30cm x 30cm. Staff member Mr Beagan cut the boards and Interactors painted them with 2 coats of blackboard paint, and lacquered the back. They were bundled up with chalk and sent to the Donations in Kind centre to be shipped in a container to Papua New Guinea for individual student use in the remote areas where books are not available. E
SOCCER BALLS AND STATIONERY FOR EAST TIMOR In
2001 4 soccer balls were purchased and signed by Interactors, and sent with a
box of stationery items ( pens, pencils, textas, rulers, erasers, exercise
books, scissors, glue etc.) to the island of Hera in East Timor. In 2000 another
box of stationery items were sent to Dili and distributed to children in an
orphanage there. In 1999 a stationery box was sent to the Solomon Islands. E EAST AFRICA SCHOOL APPEAL Every meeting a jar is passed around and members contribute 10c or 20c towards the East Africa school appeal. This fund was started by Ms Gemma Rice, a teacher from Armidale in NSW to provide education in East Africa. Funds are used for school fees, solar lighting, textbooks and vehicle and machinery maintenance. The school is in Tanzania. When the money in the jar reaches $5 it is banked into the East Africa School Appeal account. We continue to support the school in 2002, and receive newsletters from them now and again. E OLD TEXT BOOKS FROM LIBRARY FOR PNG In 2001 three car boot-loads of old text books from our library were given to Donations in Kind to be packed and sent by container to Papua New Guinea or the Solomon Islands for school use. In 2002 another 2 carloads of science text books were taken by the Caboolture Rotarians to be transported to Donations in Kind for shipping to Papua new Guinea. Several
old computers were also taken by a Caboolture Rotarian and 3 fully working
computers were made out of the “bits”! The membership of the St.
Columban’s College Interact Club in 2002 is over 60 members. Students are able
to use their membership as one avenue of school service. Students have to commit
themselves to 2 areas such as debating, interschool sport, choir, school bands,
gym club, Tournament of the Minds etc. each year. We have a good balance of students
from all year levels. All board members have to be in years 10 to 12. Parental
permission is required to join and a joining fee of $4 covers the Interact
badge. Students must attend 60% of meetings to claim Interact as one of their
commitments. Would
you like to join Interact? If you like to help other people, and want to have something to do each Friday lunch time, come to L1.1 at the meeting bell on Fridays or get a joining form from Mrs Gregory after morning PC in L1.2. What
happens at Interact meetings? The meetings are usually chaired
by the Interact President. A roll is taken each meeting. Reports from current
projects are read, Projects are planned and volunteers are called for
workshops after school (eg for painting blackboards to send to PNG,
cooking for the Mother’s or Father’s Day stall, making teddy bears to send
to the Philippines). A Rotarian from the Caboolture Rotary Club usually attends
and reports activities of our sponsor club. The club has dinner meetings
approximately twice a year where the Rotary Club of Caboolture is invited. These
are held in L1.2 on a Monday night
when the Rotary Club usually meets. Other
meeting activities: Ø
Guest speakers eg
on Camp Quality, St Gabriel’s Auditory-Verbal Intervention Centre for Deaf
Toddlers Ø
Entertainment: eg Sid gave us a magic show and talked about
Camp Quality Ø
Hot Dog days, Ice-cream days Ø
End of Term break-up parties ·
ANTI-BULLYING WEEK In
2001 we sponsored the St. Columban’s College Anti-Bullying week by providing
$300 for prizes for the poster competition, the short story competition, and the
Circle for a Safe School run. The Interact President and Mrs. Gregory helped to
present the prizes on assembly on conclusion of the week ·
URN FOR CAMPUS MINISTER’S ROOM In
1999 an urn was bought by the Interact Club for the campus minister’s room -
P1.1. ·
TROPHY FOR HOUSE SPIRIT An Interhouse trophy to be presented to the house who exhibits the best spirit at interhouse events such as the cross-country, swimming carnival, athletics carnival, and interhouse netball and other sporting competitions, is to be purchased. OTHER
SCHOOL PROJECTS: ·
We wrote letters to one of our students, Aldo, who was very ill in
hospital with Leukaemia. ·
In 2002 we have adopted the herb garden for the Home Economics kitchen
and have weeded it and pruned the shrubs, ready to plant new herbs. ·
Making this web page for school
Intranet information ·
In March 2002 we are hosting the District Interact Conference Click on the small pictures for a large image
Writing to Aldo
in hospital
Meeting with the
Rotary club of Deception Bay
The blackboards we
made with messages ready to send to PNG
Our teddy bears
comforting a child after his operation in the Philippines
Delivering Easter eggs
to the Caboolture Hospital
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