What is Rotaract?
Rotaract is basically an international voluntary service and personal development club for young adults between the ages of 18 and 30.Rotaract is part of a global effort of Rotary International to bring peace and international understanding to the world.
This effort starts at community level and gradually expands towards international level.Through community and international service projects; Rotaractors help to improve the lives of those around them by giving their time, attention, support, guidance and love.At the same time, Rotaract enhances its members' leadership and professional skills by instilling good ethical values in work, community and personal life; while establishing a network of friends.
What Is Rotaract's Goals and Purpose?
The purpose of Rotaract is to provide an opportunity for young men and women to enhance the knowledge and skills that will assist them in personal development, to address the physical and social needs of their communities, and to promote better relations between all people worldwide through a framework of friendship and service.
The goals of Rotaract are:
It all started with a meeting of 11 past Interactors gathered by Pudu Rotarian, Past President V G Chandran in September 1973.An interim Board of Directors was elected on the following meeting and healing to a call for action by Rotarians, a successful fellowship and dance event was held.
The Rotaract Club of Pudu received her charter from Rotary International on 2nd March 1974 and Yeow Ewe Chuan was elected as the Charter President. The first installation ceremony was held in the Wesley Church Hall, Kuala Lumpur and the club headed it off with 28 members.
In the early days, meetings were held at the canteen of Sekolah Menengah Jalan Cheras and members' houses before being shifted to the AIA's conference room. During that period, the club's activities were confined to finding out more about the working of Rotaract and its relationship with Rotary, helped by Rotaractors from other clubs, Pudu Rotarians and a large dose of enthusiasm.The first community service project was to clean and organise a tea party for the inmates of Cheras Old Folks Home.
Getting ready for Snake Dice game
Towards the end of this game, rained started pouring so we heed back to canteen for Lego time. In Lego session, Tuan Haji divided the participants into five groups. They were supposed to replicate the construction of logo hidden in an isolated room. Thus, each member from each team will be given 5 minutes in the isolated room to memorize and build the logo together. At the end of each activity, the participants were to reflect and jot down lessons learnt from it. The feedbacks received were it was fun and gaining knowledge at the same time, but lack of participants that could not made up the numbers for the training to be more effective.