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Briarcliff Rotary Invites Applications for Youth Exchange Program
The Rotary Club of Briarcliff Manor invites applications from students of high school age (15-18 1/2 years) to participate in a "Youth Exchange" program and spend upto 4 weeks in a foreign country.
The Rotary Club of Briarcliff Manor invites applications from students of high school age (15-18 1/2 years) to participate in a "Youth Exchange" program and spend upto 4 weeks in a foreign country. The deadline for applications is April 10, 2013.
The Program presents opportunities for students to advance their knowledge
and world understanding by allowing them to exchange in one of 30 countries, such as Argentina, Australia, Belgium, England, Germany, India, Italy, Poland and Switzerland. Students will live with host families in their selected country usually for three to four weeks each way during school summer vacation, under the sponsorship of the Rotary Club of Briarcliff Manor.
Candidates should be of good character, possesses a warm personality and a desire to live abroad and host in return. Candidates should be adaptable and flexible, well mannered and want to experience life in other countries and cultures. Children of Rotarians and non-Rotarians are equally eligible.
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Applicants will be matched with a student of similar interests in a country of applicant's selection or approval. The two students will spend an agreed upon time together, usually 3-4 weeks, in each other's home. Knowledge of a foreign language is not essential.
Being away in a foreign country has a powerful broadening and salubrious effect on students' maturing process. They develop an understanding of and a tolerance for people different in many ways from themselves, a lifelong benefit.
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Briarcliff Rotary is delighted to present this opportunity for the youth in our community, in furtherance of Rotary's objective of fostering world peace, international understanding and good will by extending international communication at the personal level through the exchange of youth. It is our hope that these young people will be able to observe, first hand, the problems and accomplishments of other countries by living with and meeting people of cultures, creeds and colors other than their own.
For further information, and for an application form, contact Rotarian President Kris Chittur at kchittur@post.harvard.edu.