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Interact Clubs

        The Stafford Rotary currently sponsors an Interact Club in every high school in Stafford County: Brooke Point, Stafford, North Stafford, Colonial Forge High Schools, and Mountain View, as well as the Gladys Oberle School. Interact Clubs are service clubs for young people ages 14 through 18 or secondary school-aged students. Interact Clubs carry out service projects that serve the school and the Community, as well as projects that further international understanding.

Some projects undertaken by Stafford County Interact Clubs:

•         Relay for Life
•         30-hour famine
•         Red Cross Blood Drives
•         Foreign exchange student receptions
•         Operation smile
•         Various food and clothing drives for the homeless and residents of Hope House
•         Adoption' of families at Thanksgiving and Christmas
•         Tutoring of elementary school children and those in the Head Start program
•         Visiting nursing homes, including Christmas caroling
•         Preparing Christmas Trees for the Festival of Trees
  
  

  What IF- YOU, (personally) really could

  make a difference. . . A world away . .

  SHELTERBOXES are self-contained, portable units for disaster relief.Boxes

  are packed ‘disaster specific’ and can contain such items as a 10-person, insulated

  tent, sleeping mats/mosquito net, cooking/eating equipment including

  a cook stove, hand tools, water purification pills/water containers,

  shovel, etc. ShelterBox responds to both natural and man-made disasters.

  Currently, they are working with UN agencies in Africa to provide emergency

  shelter for homeless war refugees and displaced people in both Sudan

  and Somalia. Boxes are sponsored for $900 US (including transportation)

  by the donations of individuals, groups and organizations. Partial donations are pooled for

  multi-donor Boxes. Donors are informed where ‘their’ Box was assigned which is also posted on

  our website: www.shelterboxusa.org

  For information & additional program materials: call 941-747-8500 or email

  Info@shelterboxusa.org

  AFTER SHELTERBOX

  Tent and typical Box contents

  on display in UN camp

  ShelterBox is a Rotary club program

  BEFORE SHELTERBOX

  Typical twig & rag refugee hut

  75% of homeless are women and children

  TO: INTERACT SERVICE CLUBS

  RE: INTERNATIONAL SERVICE OPPORTUNITY

  WOULD YOU ? ?

  Rotary Club of Lakewood Ranch FL