Rotary Youth Exchange Program

Grade ten and eleven students – Rotary Youth Exchange Program

Interested in participating in a Rotary International Youth Exchange Program, attending school in

another country for one school year starting in September of 2015?

One student will be selected from the Maple Ridge and Pitt Meadows area to participate and will be

hosted by a Rotary Club in another country to be chosen by Rotary International. Over the years

Students from this area have attended school in France, Spain, Belgium, Germany, Argentina, Japan

and other locations around world.

The cost to participate in the program is minimal including return air fare, travel and medical insurance

and any incidental travel expenses while the student is in the host country. The host Rotary club will

arrange for the selected student to stay with one or more host families through the year and will

provide a monthly allowance and generally adopt their student for the year.

In order to participate your parents will need to agree to be one of three host families who will host an

incoming exchange student from another country for three months during the school year.

If you are interested you and your parents are invited to attend an information evening sponsored by

the Meadowridge and Haney Rotary Clubs at 7 pm on Tuesday, November 4^th at the Maple Ridge

Secondary School library, 21911 122 Avenue, Maple Ridge. Preliminary application packages will be

available at that time.

For more information please feel free to contact Mike Murray (Haney Rotary Club) at 604 467-3552 or

by e mail at mwmurray@shaw.ca or Ineke Boekhorst at 604 467-2420 or by e mail at