Pictured above (from left to right), John Adams, Rotary District 7490 Youth Exchange Chair, Cristina (Spain), her host-sister,
Eileen, Kirsten, host-sister to Virginia from Italy. Not pictured (still on exchange in England), Abby Adams from Wyckoff and Abi
from Nottingham, England.
Youth Exchange Comes to the Wyckoff-Midland Park Rotary Club!
This Summer the Rotary Club if Wyckoff and Midland Park sponsored and hosted 6 high school students
to take part in the Rotary International Short-Term Youth Exchange Program. From our Club’s towns 3
students and their families were selected to participate in this exceptional program where our youth can
get paired with a similar student and their family in another country. The first part of the program one
student goes to stay with their matched student, and then mid-way through the counties are switched.
Typically this program with run for 4 to 8 weeks in total, typically during the summer time.
The respective countries and states our students exchanged with were in Livorno in Italy, Alicante in
Spain, and England.
Rotary additionally runs a full academic year exchange available to secondary school students that 8,000
participate in every year. In this program students have the opportunity to travel and study in over 100
different countries worldwide that Rotary is active. The exchange students have to be selected on their
merits as an excellent student as well as being good ambassadors for our country and Rotary by the
local Rotary Club. This student will attend a local school and study in the native language. In the course
of their year they will stay with 3 different host families and be “adopted” by the sponsoring Rotary
Club. In their year they will attend many Rotary activities and have opportunities to travel their host
country extensively as well as meet other exchange students. Rotary’s Youth Exchange Program is
accredited in the United States by Rotary International and US State Department and is the lowest cost
youth exchange program in the world.
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