Rotary Keilor East is proud to sponsor and support the Interact team at St Albans Secondary College. Interact is Rotary’s service club for students aged 12-18. Interact clubs are self-governing and self-supporting. Pic: St Albans Interact held a dessert stall fundraiser on Valentine's Day. President-elect Steph is on left.The St Albans team do local and international projects. The 2025 President Stephanie with her team attended the Assembly late last year to get together and work with Interacts from many districts. She highlighted St Albans’ raising of $400 cash and school and dental supplies for students in Timor-Leste. It also contributed $600 worth of in-kind donations to the Western Emergency Relief Network (WERN), in the form of new household goods bought from Kmart.
The team was inspired by similar projects at other clubs. Members joined role-specific groups at breakfast, involving leadership and responsibility coaching, plus SWOT analysis and SMART goal-setting.
Steph says, “This structured approach to critical thinking and communication aligned our vision as a team, ensuring our club’s growth and success this year.”
Interact is hosting nearly half a million students, becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Their format can be single-sex or mixed, single-school or across schools. Interact now has 20,000 clubs in 139 countries. Our District 9800 has sponsored a dozen around Melbourne schools.
The junior body is Earlyact encouraging care and civic mindedness among primary students, sponsored by their local Rotary Club.