1980s
Twenty founding members
Twenty young people, most of them former Interact members from schools on Hong Kong Island, start a community-based Rotaract club. The Rotary club that sponsors it then is the one that sponsors it today.
Journey
Since the 1980s
Every dated entry in the club’s record, in order: the projects, the awards, the quiet years, and the three times it was started again.
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20
founding members
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3
times this club has been started again
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4
Presidential Citations from Rotary International
Find your years
If you were a member once, roll the cog to your time in the club and go straight to that entry.
The first decades
The 1980s to 2009
Twenty founders, then project after project across the city. By 2006, five or six members are left.
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1988
An anti-smoking campaign
The earliest dated project in the record: a campaign against smoking.
- Neighbours in need
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1990
An air pollution project
A project on air pollution. The record keeps the year and the subject, and nothing more.
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1991
Career talks in Eastern District
The club holds career talks for students in Eastern District. It comes back to this kind of work more than once.
- Students and careers
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1993
Elders at Chater Garden
A project for elders at Chater Garden. In the same year, the first District 3450 Rotaract Conference.
- Elders
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1994
Project ‘REHAB’
A project called ‘REHAB’. The record keeps its name and its year.
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1998–2000
Work with the AIDS Foundation
From 1998 to 2000: work with the AIDS Foundation, and TeenAIDS workshops.
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1999–2001
Christmas parties and a sky walk
Christmas parties at a school for the deaf. A Millennium Sky Walk for the Hong Kong Blind Union. In November 2001, a day of giving blood. By the club’s own account its membership has gone ‘from 25 to 50, dropped to 25 and raised to 30’.
- Children
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2004
The Asia Pacific conference in Hong Kong
In August 2004 the Asia Pacific Regional Rotaract Conference is held in Hong Kong, and the club takes part. There is another Christmas party at a school for the deaf.
- Friends abroad
- Children
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2006
Five or six members
December 2006. The sponsor’s bulletin records ‘only 5–6 members… meeting on the Internet’. They still visit low-income families in Tung Chung, and they host a sister Rotaract club from Japan.
- Neighbours in need
- Friends abroad
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2007
A Christmas party for 130 children
At Christmas 2007 the club holds a party for 130 children at the Duchess of Kent Children’s Hospital. It is shown on television news, and it is held again every Christmas until 2012.
130 children at the hospital Christmas party of 2007
- Children
The first return
2010 to 2018
Started again from zero. Thirteen members in six months, thirty-five by 2013, and an award from Rotary International in each of its first five years.
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2010
No members
Early in 2010 the club has no members. It is started again from zero: a first board meeting in August, an installation in October, and thirteen members within six months.
13 members within six months of starting from zero
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2011
The district’s English-speaking club
In August 2011 the club becomes the district’s English-speaking Rotaract club. Rotary International awards it a Presidential Citation for 2010–11, the first of four.
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2011–12
The Changemaker Award
Rotary International gives the club its Changemaker Award for 2011–12.
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2012–13
Thirty-five members
26 members in October 2012, and 35 by April 2013. An ‘Ace an interview’ talk for 60 students, held with a college Rotaract club. Yum cha with 40 elders. A second Presidential Citation.
35 members by April 2013
- Students and careers
- Elders
February 2013 · Vocational talk 
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2014
Members from seven or eight countries
In 2014 the club’s members come from seven or eight countries. Presidential Citations follow for 2013–14 and 2014–15.
November 2014 · Installation 
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The awards, in order
Rotary International
Turn a medal to read its year.
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2016
Visits with St James’ Settlement
Members visit elders with St James’ Settlement.
- Elders
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2016–17
Nothing in the record
For 2016–17 the record says nothing about the club.
The second return
2019 to 2022
Fifteen new Rotaractors. A service trip to Chiang Mai, a night walk, a dog shelter and a district role.
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2019–20
Fifteen new Rotaractors
The club starts again, with fifteen new Rotaractors. At New Year 2020 they make a service trip to Chiang Mai, and they visit a home for elders in Yuen Long.
15 new Rotaractors in 2019–20
- Friends abroad
- Elders
September 2019 · Installation 
January 2020 · Service trip to Chiang Mai 
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2020–21
An installation held online
The installation of the new board is held online. In January 2021 members walk Causeway Bay at night to meet homeless people. In June 2021 there is a project for abandoned dogs.
- Neighbours in need
- Animals
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2021–22
Dogs, food and a district role
In 2021 and 2022, service at a stray-dog shelter, and its renovation. Recovering surplus food. A member of this club serves as District Rotaract Representative for 2021–22. District awards follow in June 2022.
- Animals
- Neighbours in need
2021 · Handover ceremony 
September 2021 · Service at a dog shelter 
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2022
The last post
October 2022: Hike for Hospice. The club’s notice for it, posted on 16 October 2022, is its last public post.
- Neighbours in need
2022 · Pinning ceremony for the new board 
2022 · Renovating the dog shelter
The quiet years
2023 to 2025
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2023
‘Succession problems’
December 2023. The sponsor’s bulletin: ‘our Rotaract Clubs had some succession problems’.
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2024
Not mentioned
In 2024 the club is not mentioned in the record at all.
For three years the record has almost nothing to say.
Back once again
2025 to now
A relaunch, then a new board. It is the third time this club has been started again.
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2025
A relaunch begins
In August and September 2025 a relaunch begins, with a joint installation and a vocational talk held with a college Rotaract club.
- Students and careers
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2026
A new board
In September 2026 a new board is elected: a President, a Secretary, a Treasurer and a Community Service Director, with two advisors from the sponsor. The sponsor’s bulletin calls it ‘a rebuilding Rotaract Club of Hong Kong Island East’. It is the third time the club has been started again.
3 times this club has been started again
The next chapter
The next entry is not written yet
It will be a service day, and you can be in it. Come to one, or join the club and help decide what the record says after that.