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SCMP Reporter

FORTY-NINE students from the Sir Ellis Kadoorie Secondary School in Sha Tin joined the 50,000-strong worldwide Interact Club network by setting up the first Interact Club in the school.

    Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Sha Tin, the new Interact Club will receive $10,000 annually, of which $3,000 will be used to run the club and the rest will be go to the school's new Internet Scholarship.

  Teacher Leung Wai-ming told Young Post that the new scholarship was not purely academic - community services would be a crucial factor.

  'Since the purpose of Interact or Rotary Clubs is to elicit students to take part in more voluntary social services, the scholarship will place similar emphasis in this area,' he said.

  Hui Yin-wai, community service director of the Rotary Club of Sha Tin, will take up the post as adviser for the new Interact Club and help it to lay the groundwork for charity activities.

  Last month, the budding Interact members initiated their first official venture by giving a helping hand to Green Power by collecting wastepaper at schools.

  The collection will continue until the end of this month.

  President Cosette Au Yeung Kin-man of Form Six, said they were also involved in inter-school activity work at the Prince of Wales Hospital.

  'From 10 am to 5 pm, we renovated some of the wards by painting some drawings on the walls.

  'We did not come in close contact with patients but we had to be checked out for German measles, measles and chicken pox beforehand just in case.'   The club has decided to impose a 'small fine' on members who do not show up to the monthly meetings in a bid to encourage attendance.

  'According to the rules of Rotary Club, members who attend fewer than 60 per cent of meetings and activities face being disqualified as members.

  'We are adapting it to a small fine, like $1, as a sign urging students to respect the club. But the exact price has not been set yet.'   She added that the club plans to visit elderly members living alone in Kwun Tong to help them clean their homes and to give them some company.

  There is also a proposal to visit children at the Prince of Wales Hospital in March but the club is still awaiting a reply from the hospital.

  The club committee meets once every fortnight.

  Committee members include president Au Yeung, vice-president Pang Yuk-fung, secretary Chu Wing-shan, treasurer Cheng Hon-hing and directors Chan Tsz-kwan, Chan Wai-hon and Cheung Ming-nga.



Students get in on Rotary act