Our Programs

Long-Term ROTARY Youth Exchange Program

Rotary’s Long-Term Exchange presents opportunities for high school students to advance their education by experientially learning another culture and language, forming bonds with people in their host country, and contributing to world understanding and acceptance of differences among people of the world. Students live with host families in their adopted land under the sponsorship and supervision of the local host Rotary Club. Exchange students are able to see firsthand the lives of other people of different colors, creeds, and cultures, while sharing their own culture without judgment.

Because of the lengthy history of the Rotary Youth Exchange Program, our long-term exchange program is the largest in the world. And because arrangements are made by local Rotarians, it is also one of the safest youth exchange programs in the world.

Duration

One entire high-school year

Application period

September-October
of the prior year

Short-Term ROTARY Youth Exchange Program

Rotary’s Short-Term Exchange Program presents opportunities for students to advance their knowledge and world understanding by allowing them to visit a different country for a limited period of time. Participating students live with a matched host family in their selected country from three to six weeks in the summer under the sponsorship of a local Rotary Club.

The objective of the Short-Term Exchange Program is to foster world peace, international understanding and good will by extending international communication at the personal level through the exchange of students of high school age. It is our hope that these students will be able to see firsthand the problems and accomplishments of other peoples of different colors, creeds, and cultures.

Duration

3-4 weeks in the summer

Application period

January-March
of the same year