Sponsored by the Rotary Club of Colombo, The Interact Club of Royal College was chartered on the 18th of November 1965. The Interact Club of Royal College is the oldest functioning Interact club in Sri Lanka.

The interact year for 2020/2021 began in June of 2020. We as the Interact of Royal College plan to carry out many successful projects upholding the name of the club. We plan to carry out our projects focusing on 5 main avenues, namely; Club Service, Community Service, Green Life, Finance and International Understanding.

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic we plan to carry out the vast majority of our projects online. For the first quarter we have planned to start off our Interact year through the project “Untold Stories of Sri Lanka’s Finest”, where we plan to share videos of influential personalities of Sri Lanka via social media. Furthermore, we plan to carry out the first phase of Green Week where we plan to do a green life related activity each day of for a whole week. Nextly we plan to carry out a new initiative called “The Sexual Harassment Awareness Campaign” in which we hope to bring awareness to those who have been victims of sexual abuse.

For the second quarter we plan to start it with a video project called “A Walk Down Reid Avenue” where we share videos of past Head Prefects of College giving out their experiences as a Royalist. Nextly we plan to carry out the project “Into the New Normal” in which we plan to conduct a webinar session regarding multiple immediate health concerns adolescences face within status quo. Finally for this quarter we plan to carry out the community service project “December to remember” where we plan to provide necessities to an orphanage on Christmas.

For the third quarter we plan to carry out two projects, namely; “The Burnably South Interact Club, Canada – Interact Club of Royal College, Sri Lanka Cultural Exchange Program 2021”, which is an International Understanding project carried out with the Burnably South Interact Club in Canada. We also plan to do a project called “The Finest Hour”, where we plan to have multiple virtual interviews with influential Sri Lankan personalities from multiplicity of different fields.

For the final quarter of the year we plan to start the quarter with “Funduhmental 2021” jointly with the Interact Club of Visaka Vidyalaya where we plan to do an online talent show. The final project planned for the year is Ambient’21, which is a new green life initiative of the club in which we share videos focusing on many green life related issue the world is currently facing.

All in all, the club plans to carry out a multiplicity of highly successful projects hoping to once again reinforce itself as a long standing interact club in the Island.