Interact Club of Washington High School
Phoenix, Arizona
Sponsored by Sun City Rotary Club

"Service Above Self"

 

With over 200 active members, Interact Club--a volunteer community service organization--is involved in numerous projects. Each month, members participate in at least five different activities, from building a garden for a daycare center; serving meals to the homeless at Andre House, packing and sorting food at St. Mary's Food Bank; tutoring elementary school children; preparing school kits to Iraqi school children; scraping, prepping and painting the home of a senior citizen; organizing donated clothing at a clothing bank; assisting disabled children at a horseriding facility; writing letters to honor veterans; and collecting toiletries for the homeless.

The best part? Students are not doing this to fulfill a graduation requirement; they are doing this because it's the right thing to do!

Interact Events
2007-08

Club Meetings
Last Wednesday of every month
2:45 p.m. in Teachers' Meeting Room


Interact is proud to be sponsored by the
Rotary Club of Sun City.

Andre House
Prepare food and serve the homeless in downtown Phoenix.

In 2006-07, Interact members served over 4,000 meals!

Watkins Shelter
Prepare food and serve the homeless in downtown Phoenix.

St. Mary's Food Bank
Help us sort food and pack foodboxes for needy families.

WHS packed in excess of 50,000 pounds of food for Phoenix families last year.

Check out WHS in action at St Mary's.

Home Base Youth Shelter
Preparation, cooking, and serving of dinner nightly to the clients at the Transitional Living Program.

Gardening at the Beatitudes
Interactors started from scratch to create a beautiful garden for the children at the Beatitudes' Agelink daycare facility.

From dirt and weeds to flowers and seeds!

See the garden grow here.

Come to Room 804 for specific dates and times and sign-up.

Rock 'n Roll Paint-a-Thon
October 27, 2007, is the big day!
Interactors will participate in this project which directly benefits well-deserved recipients who are elderly or disabled residents of any community in the Valley, who, through income or ability restrictions, are unable to paint their own homes. Over 150 teams of Valley volunteers get together to provide a fresh coat of paint to beautify our local neighborhoods, making this the single largest event of this type in the country and the largest community event planned for Make a Difference Day.

For more information on the project:
http://www.rebuildingtogether.org/index.php/

Sign up in Room 804!

 

 

 

 

 

What is Interact?

Interact is a worldwide student organization sponsored by local Rotary clubs. Interact gives young people an opportunity to participate in fun, meaningful service projects for their community and their school. Service Above Self is Rotary's foremost guiding principle, and an Interact Club's service projects are designed to improve the quality of life at home and abroad. In the process, club members develop their leadership skills and initiative while meeting new friends.

Want to become a member?

Attend the next club meeting to earn about the myriad exciting projects we have lined up to help our community! You may pick up a membership application and permission slip in room 804.

Congratulations to the RYLA Participants!

WHS Interacters Brad Meese, Earl Langendorf, Boris Suleymanov, Jhannyn Rivera attended the Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) camp in Prescott in January 2007. Rotary's training program for young leaders emphasizes leadership, citizenship, and personal growth.

For more information visit http://www.rotary.org/programs/ryla/information/about.html

History

The first Interact club was formed at Washington High School during the 2000-2001 school year. The club quickly grew to over 200 members and was named by Rotary International as the largest and most active Interact club in the world. The WHS club is proud to be sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sun City, Arizona. We appreciate their continued support. As of June 2004, there were 9,661 Interact clubs in 117 countries and an estimated 222,203 Interactors worldwide.

Contact

If you need any information on WHS's Interact, email Jill Green at jgreen@guhsdaz.org.