THE Beaudesert and Scenic Rim Sunrise rotary clubs have banded together to promote a new interact club.
The club, involving students from Beaudesert State High School, has been in recess for more than six years.
When rotary member David Kenny received a call from Beaudesert SHS Principal Damien Burke, he was ecstatic to hear that the school wanted the club back in action.
David said the principal has seen the results of the interact clubs for other schools and wanted to get it going again.
“When I was contacted, it felt like my lucky day,” he said.
David worked with Mr Burke to get the club started at the beginning of term one.
The club currently has 19 student members and focusses on group projects within the community.
Their on-going projects include organising food drives to feed the homeless in collaboration with Defenders for Hope and placing a ‘Say NO to Domestic Violence’ bench in Jubilee Park.
Beaudesert is the only school in the district to have an interact club and David said that it was a great opportunity for students to connect with the community.
“They get to pick what they want to do and run it the way they want to,” he said.
“They pick their fight.”
In joining the Interact Club, members received a ‘Say NO to Domestic Violence’ shirt and a badge on the last week of term one, curtesy of the rotary clubs.
The Interact Club is open to students of all year levels and Rotary is encouraging more students to hop on board.
