Club#2811
District #6290
Zone #28
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Rotary International promotes international exchanges through many different programs. Currently our club participates with Youth Exchange and the Group Study Exchange programs.
Youth Exchange - Creating World Peacemakers One Student at a Time
As a Rotary Youth Exchange student, you’ll spend up to a year living with a few host families and attending school in a different country.
Whether you participate in Rotary’s long-term or short-term Youth Exchange programs, you’ll learn a new way of living, a great deal about yourself, and maybe even a new language. You’ll also be an ambassador, teaching people you meet about your country, culture, and ideas. You can help bring the world closer – and make some good friends in the process.
More than 8,000 young people each year have experiences like these through Rotary Youth Exchange. It’s the opportunity of a lifetime. Are you ready for it?
For more information about this program, contact our Youth Exchange Officer, Marty Engel.
The Rotary Foundation’s Group Study Exchange (GSE) program is a unique cultural and vocational exchange opportunity for businesspeople and professionals between the ages of 25 and 40 who are in the early stages of their careers. The program provides travel grants for teams to exchange visits in paired areas of different countries. For four to six weeks, team members experience the host country's culture and institutions, observe how their vocations are practiced abroad, develop personal and professional relationships, and exchange ideas.
In a typical four-week tour, applicants participate in five full days of vocational visits, 15 to 20 club presentations, 10 to 15 formal visits and social events, two to three days at the district conference, three to four hours per day of cultural and site tours, and three to four hours per day of free time with host families.
For each team member, the Foundation provides the most economical round-trip airline ticket between the home and host countries. Rotarians in the host area provide for meals, lodging, and group travel within their district.
In 2011, two of the members on the GSE Team scheduled to go to Germany in mid-June were Joel Hunt and Emily Moffatt, both are teachers in the Petoskey School District. The team created a facebook page to journal their experience and share photos. To follow the team via facebook, click here or search "Rotary District 6290 - GSE 2011 Team."