It is an organization that design to promote responsible citizenship and leadership potential in clubs of young people, age 18 to 30.
It is also part of a global effort to bring peace and international understanding to the world.
2. Does Rotaract Club appear all over the world?
Yes, it does! We can find Rotaract Club all over like USA, UK, German, Japan, Singapore etc. In Hong Kong, seven major universities (HKU,CUHK, HKUST, HKPU, CityU, HKBU, HKLU) and IVE also have Rotaract Club. Besides university- based Rotaract Club, we also have community-based Rotaract Club.
3. What is community-based Rotaract Club?
It is open to all citizens of the community aged between 18 – 30. Normally, they are young professionals with different backgrounds and education levels. They will have regular meeting called General Meeting (GM) to learn or share different issues.
4. What are the goals of Rotaract Club?
We mainly have six goals.
They are as follow:
To develop professional and leadership skills
To emphasize respect for the rights of others based on recognition of worth of each individual.
To recognize the dignity and value of all useful occupations as opportunities to serve.
To recognize, practice and promote ethical standards as leadership What p qualities and vocational responsibilities.
To develop knowledge and understandings of the needs, problems and opportunities in the community and worldwide.
To provide opportunities for personal and group activities to serve the community and promote international understanding and goodwill toward people.
5. What are the major activities of Rotaract Club?
There are four major avenues in Rotaract Club. They are Club service, Community service, International service and Professional development. All our activities will base on them.
For Club Service: It is mainly focus on strengthen the fellowship and ensuring the effective function of the club.
For Community Service: It is focus on organizing activities which aim at improving the quality of life in their community.
For International Service: It holds an International Service Trip which can advance international understanding, goodwill and peace.
For Professional Development: It is used to expand the members’ understanding of work environment and business opportunities within their community.
6. What are the Rotaract slogan and motto?
Our slogan is “To serve, To learn, To lead”. We hope that not only the linear relationship between them, we can also keep this as a learning cycle in your Rotaract life. After you serve the community, and then learn how to organize activities for them, lastly, take a leadership role to lead other Rotaractor to hold a function. Sure, you will turn out learn again from the success / failure of the event.
Our motto is “Fellowship through service”. By doing different services, we will build up close friendship which can keep forever time.
7. Do our activities open for all students in PolyU?
I am sorry, the answer is no. Because of the limited vacancies of every project, we only allow our members to join. So, if you feel interested to our function, just go and registry at our counter during O week time.
8. Beside membership fee, do our members need to pay for each individual function that they join?
The answer is “Yes”. They need to pay for the individual project if they join. However, those fees are very low and they are mainly the transportation cost. Also, our club will have subsidy for each function. Therefore, the fee will always be a low cost.
9. What are our coming events?
This year, we have a series of functions for all our participants. For example, we will have O camp in early October, a Joint University High Table Dinner in November. Most importantly, the International Service Trip this year will go to Bali which is a very valuable opportunity. Sure, more and more events will be held. So, please don’t hesitate and join our club in O week.
10. How can you be our members?
It is so easy to join us and enter our big family. Just go to our booth during O week time, fill in a membership form and pay $30 as the membership fee, you can then enjoy a series our activities that we give you.