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History The first officially chartered Rotaract Club was in North Charlotte, North Carolina, in 1968. The first Rotaract Club chartered in New Zealand was The Rotaract Club of Mount Albert in Auckland on 19 February 1969. Charter President Graham Allan encapsulated why many young people join Rotaract - “Youth has always dreamed of bettering the society in which it lives. We view our present society with a harshly critical eye, dissatisfied with its tendency towards selfishness. We can now do something about it!” The Rotaract programme spread rapidly throughout New Zealand and the Pacific Islands. In 1970, just two years after the programme started, there were 50 clubs and by 1982, approximately 80 clubs. Unfortunately in the late 1980s and early 1990s Rotaract entered a phase of decline in New Zealand with most clubs terminating. That is until 1998 when the Rotaract Club of Somerville in Auckland was chartered with many of its members coming from another Rotary youth programme, RYLA. In addition, the Pacific Island Rotaract Clubs of Rarotonga  (Cook
Islands), Suva, Nadi and Lautoka (Fiji) and Apia (Samoa) were
rediscovered along with the formation of the Rotaract Club of
Tahiti.Many of these clubs were chartered in the early 1970s. The Rotaract Club of The Fiji Institute of Technology was chartered in 2003. The “Rotaract Revival” has continued with the charter in mid 2004 of the Rotaract Clubs of Frankton (Hamilton) and Christchurch Central in New Zealand. Districts |
There is 1 Rotaract club in the Cook Islands which with the other 4 nations, comprises the 14 Rotaract clubs in District 9920. Details of the other countries are given on their respective pages. Clubs | The Rotaract Club of Rarotonga is the only Rotaract club in the Cook Islands, as at December 2010. It was chartered in October 1994. 
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committees of District 9920 |
researched and posted by RGHF webmaster Greg Barlow, Malaysia. August 2011
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