Your Voice, Your Solution for working with Rotaractors

At 11:57AM on 3 January 2012, PP Ross Evangelio, DRC, RI District 3820 wrote: plain and simple: involvement, immersion, guidance and communication

At 11:57AM on 16 May 2011, Fred Collignon wrote: Our Rotary club has about one service project a month, in which Rotaracters can participate, while Rotaract usually has 2-3 additional ones they initiate. In the early years, our liaison Rotarian helped them launch projects, but they eventually developed ongoing capacity even though their leaders keep moving on. Our liaisons read their weekly newsletter, and we try to get them to read our. We usually have one or more Rotarians at each of their General Assemblies. Our liaison chairs exchenge several emails a week with their leaders coordinating.This year, we allowed any Rotaracter to attend our meetings without prior invitation (same as Rotarians), if they paid their own way. While we still pay for the typical visitor, it has greatly increased their visits to our club. As they've expanded to 250 paid members and 400 total in their listserve for events, we've been working to expand our liaison role from 1-2 Rotarians to a much bigger committee. We now assign a Rotarian to each of their many committees. They draw on our club members regularly for vocational training sessions, and we've increasingly encouraged them and have sought to help them reach out to get links to more Rotary clubs. The BIG challenge to us as a club is figuring out to how help them transition into Rotary itself. Our costs look so prohibitive to someone in college/grad school or just out, and we look so relatively "old."

At 10:54AM on 11 October 2010, Nwosu James .C. President Nominee (Rotaract Club of Federal University Of Technology, Owerri. Imo state. Nigeria) D9140 wrote: Rotary club should involve Rotaractors in their project thereby making them part of the family. Communication and interaction becomes easy, problems will be shared. Everybody will feel at home.

At 10:55AM on 20 September 2010, Elvis Khisa, IPP, Kiwatule wrote: We as Rotarians should design interesting and relevant projects with our Rotaractors. We should also get a Rotarian from the club who will be in charge of the Rotaractors i.e attending their fellowships, board meetings and their activities. This Rotarian should always report back to the club.

At 10:54AM on 20 September 2010, Tim Tucker wrote: Ideally, almost all the Rotaractors of a Rotaract Club should know almost all the Rotarians of their sponsoring Rotary Club. Likewise, with the members of the sponsoring Rotary Club knowing almost all their Rotaractors. This can be achieved by attending each others events, joint events, and sharing in service projects together. Rotarians and Rotaractors are in the same marvelous Rotary Family and both parts can only benefit from knowing each other better. Rtn Tim Tucker RIBI Rotaract Resource Group Rotary Global History Fellowship - Rotaract Coordinator

At 11:28AM on 7 September 2010, PDG Dinanath Lohia, R.C.GTR Raniganj, D-3240 wrote: Most of the projects, we take jointly with our sponsored Rotaract Club. We invite Rotaractors in our meeting and listen their new advices and suggestions for any projects. Our regular communications made our relations much more better. Always lack of communications from Rotary end increases breakedown in relationship with Rotaractors.

At 11:26AM on 7 September 2010, Greg Barlow wrote: Our International Peace Rally will do more for Rotary/Rotaract/Interact (RR&I) collaboration and relationship building than most other things. RR&I are required to identify peace and welfare projects, cost, submit and initiate from funds provided. Collaboration is crucial.

At 9:49AM on 7 September 2010, PP Jane Cole wrote: Our Rotaractors attend our weekly meetings. We have joint projects.During the month of September every year, ie during the New Generations month, we give them the opportunity to present their programmes of activities to the Club, and we agree on the areas of cooperation.We also have a New Generations Committee, whose responsibility includes ensuring that the interests of our Rotaractors are catered for. We sponsor them to District meetings. We further provide them with apprenticeship opportunities where necessary. We are truly trying to live the maxim" Every Rotarian an example to youth".

At 9:18AM on 3 September 2010, Okugo Uche, RC Asaba D9140 wrote: There's the tendency of our interactions with Rotaractors becoming secondary which causes communication breakdown. We had this issue where Rotaractors felt all we need them for is when we have events and tickets needs to be sold or errands to run, etc. It kind of dented the Rotarian/Rotaractor relationship. However, we began the resuscitation of this relationship by attending their meetings, helping them develop a budget/program and having them fully participate in our activities. We also have a new generations committee! This has greatly improved communication and also has an added advantage of having them interested in becoming Rotarians when the time is right!

At 9:17AM on 3 September 2010, PDG Yogananda,R I Dist 3190 wrote: Little communication between the Rotarians and the Rotaractors is because they act in isolation.Earlier,we used to have Rotary Installation as our first meeting ,Interact Installation as the second meeting and Rotaract installation as the third meeting -all at the meeting place of Rotary Club. Rotarians can visit old age homes and make Rotaractors entertain the elderly, make Rrotaractors raise funds for polio,have a quiz program for Rotaractors .... and such other projects help.

At 6:01PM on 2 September 2010, Michael Gordon wrote: Make it meaningful for both Rotaractors and Rotarians. Don't just let Rotaractors be the "cheap labor". Tell and show them how they are helping in making a difference.