Interact District Council Off to Fast Start

Under the dynamic leadership of District Governor Raquel MacDonald, the District Council for Interact District 5490 held its first on-line monthly meeting on July 2nd.  DG Raquel and her Chief Assistant Governor, Cia Villanueva, moved quickly through a 9-point agenda, outlining for the other 8 Assistant Governors their exciting goals for the year, and soliciting their help.

 

In addition to helping plan and promote the statewide Fall Leadership Conference in November, along with their own Interact District Conference in February, it was announced that a partnership between our Interact District 5490 and Interact District 3250 in northeastern India has been created.  The district leaders will be exchanging information about their respective cultures, as well as sharing projects and best practices between their Interact districts.

 

In addition to wanting to expand our Interact district’s international relations, DG Raquel informed the Council her second major goal this year is to have Interact district leadership actively promoting closer and more beneficial relationships between the Interact clubs and their sponsoring Rotary clubs.  She encouraged her AGs to visit Rotary clubs that are sponsors of their assigned groups of Interact clubs to discuss with them ways they might become more closely and actively involved with their Interact clubs.

 

The Interact Assistant Governors will also be working with their groups of Interact clubs to encourage all of them to work this year toward achieving the Presidential Citation for Interact Clubs, which will be awarded at the end of the year by RI President Gary C.K. Huang.  Clubs must total 35 points from the prescribed list of activities to qualify for the award.  DG Raquel pointed out that all Interact clubs who agree to help raise funds for the Kids Against Hunger meal packing project, which is being planned for this year’s RYLA in Prescott in January, can earn 15 of those required 35 points, by helping to feed starving kids in Haiti with the meals this year’s RYLArians will be packing.

 

Rotary club committees and boards could probably take a lesson or two from these young Interact leaders, who covered their entire 9-point agenda in less than one hour.  Expect some great things this year from this Interact Leadership.