Wed Nov 4 Zoom Meeting - Interact Program by Dave Rogers
Nov 2 to 8 is World Interact Week. Our Club's Youth Chair Dave will comment on the Rotary Interact program and its challenges and opportunities. Our club currently sponsors 2 Interact clubs, Cambie Secondary and McRoberts Secondary.
First time Zoom user: Click this (link) and you will be prompted to download and install Zoom or From mobile first install Zoom app from google play/apple store. Watch tutorial video (here)
Plan ahead !!! The 150ml sanitizers are great stocking stuffers. The 500ml can make up for gift baskets.
The sanitizers are made locally and approved by Health Canada. By ordering the sanitizers, you help us to support the low income families and also our local economy.
Interact is Rotary International's service club for young people ages 12 to 18. Interact clubs are sponsored by Rotary clubs. The Rotary Club of Richmond currently sponsors the Interact club of Cambie and McRoberts.
As early as the 1920s, individual Rotary clubs supported youth activities that encouraged young people to be good citizens. The Interact Club of Melbourne High School, Florida became the first Interact club on 5 November 1962. After 58 years, Interact has grown into 14,911 Interact Clubs with 342,953 Interactors spread across 146 countries.
For the past 11 years, Rotary International has been holding annual Interact Video Awards to inspire more Interactors to promote leadership skills and helps them make a difference in their communities. This year, they are accepting videos, photos, and essays as part of the Interact Awards. Interact Club of Hugh Boyd Secondary in Richmond, BC won 2012 Best Video and 2014 Grand Prize. Check out the past winners...
The Interact Club of The Rajkumar College, India won "Best Video" in the 2019! Their mission is to develop the adopted village school at khakhana, to empower the village community through basic educational facilities. Great round of applause to the Interactors, they completed the tasks and 380 village students benefited by this project.
Electrical and Security Service (CBA Electrical & Security Service), Bill and wife Cindy are corporate members, Cindy joined the Rotary Club of Richmond November 16, 2016 and Bill joined Feb 7, 2018.
Bill was past Membership Chair. He co-organized our club’s 2019 Senior Table Tennis Tournament raising fund for outdoor table tennis tables in Richmond City Park. It was a fun event and Bill took the first prize in doubles. Cindy is our Board Director and was past club Treasurer.
Bill is the President of CBA, he moved to Canada from Hong Kong in 1969 to attend University of Waterloo (B.S.) Cindy moved here from Taiwan in 1992, graduated from Simon Fraser University (B.A.), and assists Bill in his business. She worked as Financial Advisor with Clarica, Home/Auto Insurance Advisor and Real Estate Agent.
Both Bill and Cindy are active in their community. Bill is guest speaker in AM1320 live talk show on Current news, past VP of Richmond Asia Pacific Business Association,
Ex-Director of S.U.C.C.E.S.S., past Co-chair of several "Walk with the Dragon" Fundraisers, and ex-director and Co-chair of Chi Heng Foundation Canada to raise funds for orphan with AIDS in China. He sponsored many charity fundraising events such as VGH, Mount Joseph Hospital and St. Paul Hospital Foundation, Heart & Stroke Foundation, Children’s Hospital, Canadian Cancer Society and Diabetes Association.
Cindy is past Director of Taiwan Chambers of Commerce (TCCBC) and past Director of Global Federation of Chinese Business Women Association of BC.
Bill loves playing table tennis and meeting friends. Cindy is a devoted mother of twin daughters Michelle and Olivia, they both attended 2018 Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (RYLA) North in Prince George, a Leadership program to develop skills while having fun and making connections.
Canada salutes UN 75th Anniversary, a celebration of Rotary too!
Canada is celebrating our nation's role as a founding member and a contributor to world peace with its 2020 ONE DOLLAR circulation coin.
Canada was one of 51 countries which founded the United Nations in October 1945. As one of the most “international” organizations in the world of the day, Rotary played an active role in the drafting of the United Nations Charter in 1945 in San Francisco.
Today, Rotary holds the highest consultative status offered to a nongovernmental organization by the UN’s Economic and Social Council, which oversees many specialized UN agencies. Read more...
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