KNYSNA NEWS - One of the tasks of the Rotary Club of Knysna's Youth Committee is to organise the annual Interact Training Day for new and incoming Interact presidents and office bearers.
The programme gives the club leaders a chance to meet with each other and share ideas, thus creating a larger pool of commonality and opportunities to collaborate with each other.
The first training day after a two-year hiatus (due to Covid) took place at the end of August.
Apart from the learning aspect of the day, the main emphasis was to have loads of fun!
This was achieved by Knysna Rotary's in-house "party guy" and 2023-24 president-elect, Herb Hunter, who soon had Interactors 'interacting' through a variety of games and challenges, from playing balloon netball to turning a fellow Interactor into a mummy with a single roll of toilet paper.
On the more serious side, the teams were tasked with setting goals and shared ideas about ongoing and prospective projects for their clubs.
To mark the 60th anniversary of Interact, all seven Interact Clubs were presented with a token amount of R60, with the challenge of making it into a larger amount that will enable them to embark on a bigger project.
"The honesty and enthusiasm displayed by those at the training day bode well for Interact, not just here in Knysna but also on a much wider scale, when these young leaders leave school and enter the working world," says Knysna Rotary's Youth Committee Chair, Butch Coetzee.
"We encourage our local community to support the young and energetic members of our Interact clubs as they move among us to better our world. To coin a phrase from our world champion Springbok team - 'We are stronger together'."
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