Host family Opportunity
We have a need for a host family beginning mid-January 2023.
Each year the Stevens Point and Greater Portage County Rotary clubs support an
international youth exchange arrangement.
The objective of the program is to promote world peace through social and
cultural understanding. The students are high school age and must attend high
school while in US.
Families are asked to host the student for one semester.
These exchanges help your family understand another culture and lifelong
relationships are established. You will have a native speaker of another language
in your home and an enviable opportunity for your family to learn another
language.
Language skills are developed by the inbound and the hosts in most cases.
By agreeing to be a host family for a Rotary Exchange student, you have agreed to
assume parental responsibility for this young ambassador, to provide shelter and
sustenance, guidance and counsel, and love and support to the child of strangers
who may live thousands of miles from you.
Our inbound students become part of your family and participate with the joys
and chores that every family experience involves.
We do not ask you to do this all on your own. Rotarians in your local community
as well as those of us who serve on the Rotary District Youth Exchange Committee
will do all we can to make this exchange a success. We have RYE officers and
councilors locally.
We meet with and provide orientation training to the exchange student upon
their arrival, and we will, throughout the exchange period, be in contact with both
you and your exchange student to answer questions, address concerns, and
resolve problems.
Contact with your interest:
John F. Bergin
Rotary Youth Exchange Officer for Stevens Point and Portage County Clubs
johnf.bergin@wctc.net
Cell: 414-364-4399
