Interact 7640

South Jersey Students Volunteered in Santo Domingo

In March 2011, Interact Club members from South Jersey (District 7640) visited the Armando Rosenberg Home and School in Santo Domingo to volunteer for several projects supporting the ongoing maintenance of the home of several hundred kids. Several Rotary Clubs from the South Jersey support the orphanage on an ongoing basis. 

Check out the photos from the trip. 

 

Article on Interact project in The Press of Atlantic City

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The Press of Atlantic City has featured a article on a worthy project that the local Rotary and Interact Clubs have been supporting for many years.  

Check out the article here. 

Former student of Absegami High School and member of the Interact Club at the school will be blogging about her experience during their latest trip to the orphanage in Santo Domingo. 

Check out the blog here. 

Absegami Interact Club volunteers at the 2010 MS Walk

Nine members of Absegami High School’s Interact Club and adviser Ed Friend offered food, drink and cheers to community members who participated in the National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s 2010 MS Walk in Ocean City on May 2. The Interactors worked alongside 25 other volunteers and fed approximately 630 walkers who raised an estimated $78,000.

 

Road Clean-up by Interact and Rotaract members

The clean-up was done as a joint effort with Vineland Rotary Club, Cumberland County College Rotaract Club and Vineland High School Interact Club.  This is the second of two clean-ups done annually.

 

Vineland Interact Earth Day Project

The Vineland High School Interact Club went to Johnstone Elementary School to teach the 4th graders curriculum on Germination and Photosynthesis.  They also planted "green" plants as a gift to each 4th grade classroom.

 

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Interactor featured in The Press

Check out the article on Stephanie Druziako, Interact member from Vineland High School in The Press. 

Click here for the article. 

 

Woodbury High School Interact Club

 

District Governor Elect 2010-11 CarolAnn Jeronimo meeting with the

Woodbury High School Interact Club

Back Row L to R - DJ French, Bobby Miller, Zoe Mowl, Maddie Graziani, Sydney Mckeown, District Governor Elect 2010-11 Carolann, Anastasia Jones. Front Row Tia D'Costa,  Katie Mooney, and Julio Interiano

 

Rotary Club President meeting with the Interact Club Officers
L to R Maria Lario, advisor for Woodbury High School, Jim Kelleher, 

Treasurer Sydney Mckeown, President Zoe Mowl,

Secretary Ariana Pendleton, Vice President Julio Interiano

District Governor Elect 2010-11 CarolAnn Jeronimo meeting with the

Woodbury High School Interact Club

Clockwise starting boy kneeling - Julio Interiano,  Sydney Mckeown, Katie Mooney, DGE CarolAnn, Bobby Miller, Maddie Graziani, DJ French, Zoe Mowl,  Anastasia Jones and Tia D'Costa 

Oakcrest High School now has a Interact Club

On Thursday, May 15, the Oakcrest High School Interact Club, the District's newest Interact Club, inducted officers with the help of the Mays Landing Rotary Club. Attending the ceremony were Interactors, Rotarians, Rotary District officials and administrators from Oakcrest High School.
 
Oakcrest becomes the 38th Interact Club in Rotary District 7640. The District now has approximately 3,000 Interact students.

Please take a look at the rest of the pictures by clicking on the photo album on the left.

Interact Club at Absegami High School Leaps into Service

“What exactly does the Interact Club do?  Aren’t they the ones that put on those delicious bake sales in the commons after school?”  These are the questions that are asked by many students about one of Absegami’s youngest clubs. Although the club does rely on bake sales to support one of its efforts, club members also find time to enjoy team-building activities with Interactors throughout the region while aiding local, national and international organizations.

The first of the club’s accomplishments this year was volunteering at the Community Food Bank in Egg Harbor Township at the end of October.  Interactors who attended helped box approximately 3,500 boxes of food for various food pantries in the area so families in need could enjoy a healthy, traditional Thanksgiving meal.

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day was the date of the second community service activity the club participated in.  Close on the heels of the region’s Mid-Year Assembly, members attended Stockton College’s “Day of Service” ceremony and traveled to the Atlantic City Aquarium to help organize The Baby Blue Foundation’s annual Birthday celebration.
 
At the party, Interactors worked with children and helped inform the community about the foundation’s goals to make sure that newborn children do not fall victim to unnatural deaths because of their mothers’ uncertainty about raising a child.  In addition to learning and spreading the word about the foundation, Interactors also had time to explore the aquarium’s many interesting exhibits.  Transportation to and from the Mid-Year Assembly and the “Day of Service” activities were provided by the club’s sponsor, The Egg Harbor City Rotary Club.

In April, members of the club participated in a C.O.P.E. (Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience) course in Elmer due to the financial assistance of the Atlantic City Rotary Club. At the course, Interactors enjoyed team- and confidence-building activities that tested their leadership, camaraderie and both physical and mental strength under professional supervision.

On Earth Day, twelve members of the club volunteered at a clean-up at Edwin B. Forsythe National Wildlife Refuge in Oceanville.  With the assistance of various groups around the region, the group cleaned up over three tons of debris from the 8-mile Wildlife Drive on one of the more beautiful spring days in April.

Seventeen members of the Interact Club volunteered their time at the Multiple Sclerosis Society’s walk-a-thon (i.e. the MS Walk) at Ocean City’s Boardwalk on May 4th.  At the walk, Interactors learned how to provide service with a smile as they kept over 550 walkers hydration and nutrition levels up while completing the scenic four-mile walk in the sun.

The club’s most crowning achievement this year, however, is donating $600.00 to The Orchid Foundation, a non-profit organization that has serviced and maintained the Armando Rosenberg Home and School in the Dominican Republic since the early 1980’s.  The club’s donation will go toward a container filled with food and supplies for the orphanage’s 150 resident children between the ages of four and ten years old. 

Much of the money for the orphanage has been raised through the various bake sales the club has conducted at the school throughout the year.  So, to all those who bought some yummy after-school treats, the club has just one thing to say:  “Thank you!”

Interact Challenge Camp Report

Students had a great time at the Interact Challenge Camp held on March 29, 2008 at the Camp Roosevelt Scout Reservation in Elmer, NJ. 

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