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The Victoria Junior College Interact Club has undertaken the following four activities in 2005: Interact Leadership Training Camp (21st to 23rd June) During the June holidays, the Rotary Club of Singapore organized a three day camp for all interactors from secondary schools, junior colleges and Institute of Technical Educations (ITEs). On the first day of the camp, interactors were divided into groups of about 10. These were the people they would be with for the rest of the camp. To kick of the camp, many interesting ice breakers were played. These helped the various interactors get to know each other better. During the camp, interactors attended talks conducted by professionals on public speaking. Our interactors also picked up essential skills on how to conduct a meeting and how to carry out effective group discussions. The camp ended with a special buffet dinner by the Rotary Club – Singapore. It was indeed a brilliant opportunity to learn more about the activities in the Interact Club such as the International Understand Project, and also to get to know interactors from other schools. - by Shanti Nanwani 05S42 (External Secretary) True Hearts Homegroup Barbeque True Hearts Homegroup had a barbeque during the June Holidays as an outdoor activity to further improve the mentor-mentee relationship. We had fun for about four hours, eating a variety of very delicious food and playing games. It was indeed a fun experience and both the mentors and mentees also got to know each other better. This facilitated future mentoring sessions and perhaps make learning a more enjoyable process. - by Adithya 05S33 (True Hearts HGL) On the week 7th - 11th March, the Victoria Junior College Interact Club organised a collection of paper cranes for the Song He Xiang Mi- Xing He Ri Bao pine crane project. The organisers pledged a bowl of rice (100g) for every crane that was collected, to be donated to five local beneficiaries including Bright Vision Community Hospital, Hendersons Senior Citizens Home and Sree Narayana Mission Home. These beneficiaries mainly serve the elderly. A booth was set up in the canteen on 9th March to collect the cranes the students had folded. Our original target was to collect 2000 cranes, one from each Victorian. However, the support from the students was overwhelming. Within three days of collection, a total of 10263 paper cranes were collected! That is equivalent to more than 1026 kg of rice! The Integrated Program students had contributed the most. Merely four classes but they contributed 3471 paper cranes to the final count. Besides paper cranes, we also collected 16 seagulls, 2 eagles, an albatross, 2 sampans, 10 sailing boats, 2 roses, 3 hearts and a butterfly... All the cranes collected were packed into one huge box and five interactors made their way down to the Suntec City Convention Centre to submit the cranes. It was with great pride that we finally submitted these cranes under the name of the Victoria Junior College Interact Club. - By Yap Su-e 05S18 (Club President) International Understanding Project
Every year, the Interact Club organizes an International Understanding (IU) project. The aim of such an undertaking is to promote the understanding of a country outside of Singapore chosen by the club to the rest of the school and to raise awareness of people living outside the comfort zone of Singapore to the student body. This year, the True Hearts Connection home group embarked on the project with the theme 'Starvation in India'. It was planned to coincide with the celebrations for International Friendship Day and aims to foster a deeper understanding of the issue through two main activities- an exhibition presenting facts about the issue and a mass starvation exercise aimed to give the school a deeper understanding of the plight of the starving people in India. The mass starvation exercise aimed to increase the students' conviction in their giving. It was also a symbolic movement for students to show their support in helping the starving people of India. Each student was encouraged to pledge a meal and to donate the cost of the meal (S$2.00). In return, a small red paper heart was given to the student to wear on their left chest. We also call this the Hungry Hearts Project. More than 500 people in total have pledged their meals and more than a thousand dollars was raised at the end of the event. Funds raised were given to Worldvision, an organization that helps to feed the world's hungry children. - By Heng Li Seng 05S41 (True Hearts Connection) |
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