Rotary Interact Planting

Ōtaki College has an active and enthusiastic Rotary Interact group, proudly supported and encouraged by our local Rotary Club. Current Interact group members come from across the school, from our youngest members in Year 7, through to our departing seniors in Year 13. Each year, the College Interact group choose a local and an international project to focus on. This year, the group are fundraising to raise funds for wheelchairs in Tanzania, as part of a Rotary sponsored project. They held a recent non uniform day and sausage sizzle and will have other fundraising events in the coming weeks to help fund their international project choice. For our local project, the group decided they would like to do some planting alongside the Ōtaki River.

The Ōtaki College Rotary Interact group had an enjoyable morning planting with the Friends of the Ōtaki River (FOTOR) on Wednesday the 11th of August. Thankfully, after the recent poor weather, we were fortunate to have a stunning, sunny Ōtaki day which was perfect for planting. The group were involved in planting over 400 plants as part of the ongoing project by FOTOR to restore the river environment. The planting session was student organised and led, with Year 13 student Kaitlin Vodanovich liasing with Max Lutz from FOTOR . On the day, 13 members of our group were able to attend and take part in planting. Ōtaki Rotary President, Adrian Gregory was also able to attend to support and encourage the group, alongside Max Lutz, Chair, FOTOR and other members of FOTOR. 

The Interact group would like to thank the Friends of the Ōtaki River and Ōtaki Rotary for supporting them with their project.