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Contacts:

2015-2016 Interact District Officers
Jose Sagrera - Interact District Governor - joses9@live.com
Theresa Bui - Interact Lieutenant Governor - thaibuifactor@gmail.com
Ingrid Wu - Interact District Secretary - ingridwuusa@gmail.com

2015-2016 District 5890 Interact Committee Co-Chairs:
Charlie Buscemi - cjsb@suddenlink.net
Frank Parrilla - flparrilla@icloud.com
Tommie Buscemi -  tommie5890@suddenlink.net

2015-2016 Rotary District Officers
Nick Giannone - 2015-2016 Rotary District Governor - nickg5890@yahoo.com
Eric Liu - 2016-2017 Rotary District Governor - ericliudc@msn.com
Bill Palko - 2017-2018 Rotary District Governor - william.palko@amegybank.com

Link to our Rotary District 5890 Rotary Clubs - click here.
 

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1.  Interact District 5890 Facebook Page


Click here for our "Interact District 5890" Facebook Page.
 

 

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3.  Link to Rotary International's Partners:


Rotary forges partnerships with like-minded groups – from community nonprofits to the United Nations – that make us stronger and more successful at what we do.
Click here to visit the Rotary International website which lists all of the partners, and organizations.
 

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4.  Trick-or-Treat To End Hunger Challenge Project
This year's goal....50,000 non-perishable food items donated to local food banks!
Awards will be presented at the 2016 Interact District Conference to the top three Interact clubs...so count the food you collect!
    
Click here for a "Trick-or-Treat To End Hunger" Project Information Forms
As part of our Hungry Harvest to help fill the shelves at local food pantries, we encourage our District 5890 Interactors to go Trick-or-Treating on Halloween to collect non-perishable food items.  Let your sponsoring Rotary club know, so they can help by either donating foods, funds, plus help you with the logistics of transportation during the food collection process, and delivery to your community food bank.

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6.  Interact Presidential Citation Form:


Click here for a link to the form.
Please use the form to plan activities to qualify for this prestigious global award.
Your form must be submitted to Tommie Buscemi no later than April 4, 2015 but you can submit it as soon as your
Interact club has accomplished the five (5) required activities.
Submit to: Tommie Buscemi at tommie5890@suddenlink.net
 

7.  "End Polio Now Interact Club Challenge Fundraiser"

Our Goal is for all our District 5890 Interact Clubs to work together to collectively raise...$20,000!
How?  Do a Purple Pinkie Project, Haunted House, End Polio Now Walk or Concert...or any other project.
When?  Awards will be given at our Interact District Conference in February/March 2016....but your club can pick any date for a fundraiser.
World Polio Day on October 24th and there will be lots of media coverage around the globe.
Your club decides what type of fundraiser, then gives the funds to your Rotary club, and 100% of the money will be donated to Rotary's End Polio Now Program. 
Do a project in your school, community, at a local elementary school, and don't forget to visit your sponsoring Rotary club!
Rotary launched the global fight against polio in 1985...but they were told that they would never, ever eradicate the disease.
In 1985, polio existed in 193 countries....TODAY, there are 3 polio endemic countries!
Rotary has helped immunize more than 2.5 billion children.
 The number of polio cases worldwide has decreased from 500,000 in 1988 to 44 cases in so far in 2015. 
As a part of Rotary's Global Polio Eradication Initiative with UNICEF, the World Health Organization, CDC and the support of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation -- we are this close to ending polio. 

 

 Presentation for your school or Rotary club:
  

Click here for a link to the above video, "Purple Pinkie Project (Heal The World)" (Length:  2-minute)
Click here - Script for Purple Pinkie Project Presentation (use with "Heal The World video at Rotary club meetings and schools)
Click here for the Purple Pinkie Project Handbook (Overview of project, examples of forms, etc)
Click here for Purple Pinkie Project Project Logo (as shown above)
To schedule an "End Polio Now" presentation by Rotarian Wayne Staton, send him an email: wayne_staton@yahoo.com Contact Rotarian Tommie Buscemi at tommie5890@suddenlink.net for questions about the Purple Pinkie Project.
Visit www.endpolio.org for more information about Rotary's work to eradicate polio.

8.  "What Will Your Generation Be The Last To See?":

Click here to see Video (Length:  60-seconds)
 

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10.  Rotary Youth Exchange Program
 

(The above video was produced by Rotarians in a different Rotary district....If you want to be an Rotary Youth Exchange Student, you and your parents need to contact Judy Harwell at 281-734-6483, or jaharwell1@gmail.com for more information.)

(The above video was produced a student from the Houston-area that spent a year abroad as a Rotary Youth Exchange Student in Thailand.)

 Click here for more information about becoming a Rotary Youth Exchange Student.  Since 1929, Rotary International has sent young people around the globe to experience new cultures. Currently, about 9,000 students are sponsored by Rotary clubs every year. Typically, students are sent to another country for a year-long stay, generally living with multiple host families during the year and being expected to perform daily tasks within the household as well as attend school in the host country. Short term exchange programs are also quite common. These typically involve direct student exchanges between two families arranged through Rotary to coincide with major school holiday periods. 

Contact our Rotary District 5890 Youth Exchange Committee Chair, Judy Harwell

281-734-6483, or jaharwell1@gmail.com for more information

Judy can also help you schedule a Rotary Youth Exchange Program presentation at your school, or speak with your parents.

 

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11.  Rotary's Four-Way Test


Click here for an 18-second video to hear the correct way to recite Rotary's Four-Way Test.
Is your Interact club reciting Rotary's Four-Way Test at your meetings?
This is something that the 1.2 million Rotarians around the world do at their weekly meetings, and Interact clubs should be doing the same.
WHAT IS THE FOUR-WAY TEST?  One of the most widely printed and quoted statements of business ethics in the world is Rotary’s 4-Way Test. Rotarian Herbert J. Taylor created the 4-Way Test in 1932 when he was asked to take charge of a Chicago-based Club Aluminum Company, which had over 250 employees.  With $400,000 in debt, and facing bankruptcy with $400,000, Taylor looked for a way to save the struggling company mired in depression-caused financial difficulties. He drew up a 24-word code of ethics for all employees to follow in their business and professional lives. The 4-Way Test became the guide for sales, production, advertising, and all relations with vendors and customers, and the survival of the company was credited to this simple philosophy.  In 5 years, Taylor paid off the $400,000 of debt, with interest, and distributed one million dollars in dividends to stockholders, in spite of the continuing Great Depression. 

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14.  Children of Dump - School of the Dump - A Rotarian Operated Project
This is fundraiser for your Interact club....and an international, vocational Rotary service project

 
 
Click here for a link to the above video, "Children of the Dump Beads for Hope 2011"  (Length:  9:17 minutes) How can one teenager change the lives of others?  Watch this video to see how a 17-year old Girl Scout traveled to Chinandega, Nicaragua with a group of Rotarians from Houston, including her mom, and taught the children at the School of the Dump how to make beads from wallpaper.  Funds from this project provide students with a fair income, plus is helps support the School of the Dump, and the Betania Trade School that provide the students with a quality education, food, medical care, and a trade school.

Click here for an order form. 

Click here the project information sheet.
The cost is $375 for 100 bracelets, and your Interact club determines the selling price and keeps the profit as your club's fundraiser.  This counts as a international service project, and a vocation service project which qualifies as Activity #6 for the Interact Presidential Citation requirement, "Participate in a school or community service project for fundraiser to support one of Rotary's areas of focus."
Want to order a box of Beads for Hope?  Contact Charlie Buscemi at cjsb@suddenlink.net

 

15.  Guerrero Clinic Project - A Rotarian Operated Project 

Click here to watch a 6-minute video about this Rotary project.
Click here for information about the Guerrero Clinic. 

Started by Rotarians, the Guerrero clinic provides Eye & Dental care to indigent people in the State of Chihuahua, Mexico. It is a Rotary sponsored organization with support from districts Districts 5890 (Houston, TX), 4110 (Mexico), and Dallas (5810) with volunteers from across the US and Mexico. The clinic is almost 30 years old and, as far as we know, is the longest running Rotary project of its kind in the world.  A great way to support this clinic is to have a "used prescription eyeglasses" drive at your school or in your community.  You don't need to know the prescription of the glasses since the doctors will test the lenses, and regrind them to make a new pair of glasses for a patient.  Contact Rotarian Walter Branson with the Brazosport Rotary Club at walter@bransonconstruction.com about how you can get involved.

16.  Kids' Meals - Meals on Wheels for Children:

 
Click here to visit their website.
Kids' Meals is a 501(c)3 non profit, community based organization, serving healthy lunches to over 1,700 hungry pre-school aged children, living in poverty. We provide and deliver nutritious meals, free of cost to the families, Monday through Friday, year-round.
Their Executive Director, Cristina Vetrano, is a former Interactor!
cristina@kidsmealshouston.org or call 713-695-5437.

17.  Disaster Aid USA Global Emergency Relief - A Rotarian Operated Project

      
Click here for their website. 
When a disaster strikes...anywhere in the world...Disaster Aid is prepared to respond with boots on the ground!
Disaster Aid USA is a Rotarian Operated Project. We provide shelter, clean water systems, tools, mosquito nets and other items to survivors of disasters.  DAUSA also partners with others to provide water filtration projects wherever needed.  We vow to be completely transparent and welcome inquiries about how we use donations.  Our boxes are blue and yellow to  better reflect our Rotary roots and connections, and equipped with wheels and handles for easier movement; they are sturdy and not susceptible to breakage.
Click here to see all of their products.
Contact Person:  Rotarian Wayne Beaumier
Cell: 281-923-4085 or wbeaumier@att.net.
 

18.  Jesse H. Jones Rotary House International - A Rotarian Operated Project

 Click here for their website.  This is the largest Rotary project in the world, and was started by the Rotary Club of Houston.  Rotary House is located across the street from MD Anderson Hospital.  From 6 PM - 8 PM on the first and third Wednesday of each month, the Rotary Club of Houston hosts a social for the cancer patients, and their families, that are staying at Jesse Jones Rotary House.  There is singing, karaoke, snacks, and an opportunity to help the patients have a fun time in the midst of their cancer treatment.

19.  Rotary Fire Fighter's Home - A Rotarian Operated Project


Click here for their website, click here for their Facebook Page, and click here for a link to the above 1:45 minute video. 
Contact:  University Area Rotarian Irene Hickey
281-693-7162 or via email at hickey.irene@gmail.com.

20.  Rotary Lombardi Award - A Rotarian Operated Project

 
Click here for their website or click here for their Facebook Page. 
Started in 1970 by the Rotary Club of Houston, their Rotary club hosts this national award and raises funds the American Cancer Society for cancer research and patient care. The Award is presented to the lineman of the year annually in Houston Texas.

21.  Article:  "Malala is One of Us"


Click here to read the article in the January 2014 issue of The Rotarian Magazine.
At age 15, Malala Yousafzai was shot while on her school bus in October 2012 for defying the Taliban by speaking out for girls' education.
 

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22.  EarlyAct FirstKnight Character Development Curriculum - A Rotarian Operated Project


 Click here for a link to our Rotary District 5890 EarlyAct FirstKnight Site Page for links to videos, the 2014-2015 EAFK Handbook for Rotarians, participating elementary schools, plus lots more information.
Contact our District 5890 EAFK Committee Chair, Charlie Buscemi, at (281) 359-7193 or email cjsb@suddenlink.net.
 

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For information about any of the above projects or events, please send an email to Tommie Buscemi at tommie5890@suddenlink.net.