Rotaract

About Rotaract

Rotaract clubs are part of global effort to bring peace and international understanding to the world. This effort starts at the community level but know no limits in its outreach.

Rotaract clubs are self-governed and largely self-financed at the local level.

Working in cooperation with sponsoring Rotary clubs as partner-in-service, Rotaractors are an important part of Rotary's extended family.

Rotaract clubs organize a variety of projects and activities, depending primarily on the interests of the club members. There are, however, three types of activities within the Rotaract program: professional development, leadership development and service projects. Together, these three areas ensure a balanced club program and provide important experience and opportunities for the personal development of each Rotaractor.

The activities that we had implemented

• New Year celebration event for the kids from "Luch" orphanage City tours for the kids. Visits to the Arts museum, Local history museum, and "Intim" theater
• "Fool's Day" celebration on April 1st in the "Luch" orphanage
• Official registration of Tomsk-Rotaract Club. Carolyn Johnes, then a governor of 5010 district, presented us with the Charter
• Collecting the clothing, books and toys for kids from the orphanage jointly with the school students
• "Hair cut of the year" competition when the hairdressers came to the orphanages
• The members of our club regularly visited orphanages to play together with the kids
• International Children Day celebration jointly with Tomsk Rotary Club (the concert starring children only, fundraising activities, virtual sale of the patchwork blanket called "Friendship")
• "All together now" and "Happy Olympics" sport events for the children from "Luch", "Ogonek", "Ujut", and "Drug" orphanages held in Tomsk State University gymnasium. Presenting kids with prizes and pictures.
• Participation in Rotaract Youth Forums in Barnaul, GornoAltaisk, Novosibirsk and Kemerovo

The projects for 2004/2005.

• Painting the walls in the Tomsk orphanages.
• The complex project to facilitate healthy entertainment and way of life for the high school students from Tomsk schools
• Restoring the sport playing grounds for basketball in the city of Tomsk
• Holding street-ball competition for the kids

Regular meetings of Tomsk  Rotaract club will take place every Wednesday 6.20 at International Relations Department, Dean’s office (Lenina 49).