All those seen here in the Video presentation are Youth Exchange candidates from Rotary District 1070.

The aims of the Youth Exchange Team in District 1070 for the year 2011-12 are: First, to help even more Clubs to better appreciate the range of superb exchange opportunities - not all of which include ‘hosting’ – that are available to young people from their locality, including the younger members of their own families. Secondly, to help Clubs to gain access - even to give presentations to their local secondary schools,sports clubs, scouts and guides - so as to talk to students in Years 11-13 about the FOUR Rotary Youth Exchange Programmes (tho’ Long Term Exchanges with countries outside EU are not currently possible) Thirdly, to provide Clubs who prefer to with a tailored MS Powerpoint presentation to deliver to their schools so that they can make the students aware of the www.youthribi.org website where all the youth exchange options, terms and requirements are detailed and through which all student/candidate’s Registration of Interest in any of our Exchange programmes MUST FIRST be made. Finally to provide Clubs with a local link – a Club Rotarian who has up to date experienece of the programmes and the processes to guide them through the process so as to ensure that each young person who comes forward and their family receive the same enquiries, attention, support and protection so that the safety of each incoming exchange student from which ever other country will be ensured, while they enjoy their stay in District 1070 of RIBI. Rotary International has recognised that Youth or New Generations is the FIFTH Avenue of Service and that facilitating transnational visits and meeting between young people is a sure-fire way to improve international understanding worldwide. The limits on Camps & Tours of only one or two young people from each country, on each Camp, mean that they cannot avoid spending and sharing their 2 or 3 weeks with foreigners which drives an openness and enhances their interpersonal skills in an inimitable way. So, if we in District 1070 want to make a positive contribution to a peaceful future we can do no better than to promote the Rotary Youth Exchange programmes. With a little effort and at low cost to Club and District we can make an enormous difference to the worlds youth and the future   Click here to download the Youth Exchange Powerpoint presentation for your club/schools (n.b. Internet Connection necessary to view embedded media files) Scroll to the bottom of the page to watch the movie on its own
	Further details are available from: RIBI web site www.ribi.org  The Youth Exchange Web Site www.youthribi.org  For further information, contact: Colin Yarwood: (Rotary Club of Peterborough Ortons) D1070.YouthExchange@gmail.com

Guidelines for Candidates

 

AGES: students between the ages of 15 and 22 years of age are welcome on most exchnages.

APPLICATIONS: Students must apply for all Exchanges via www.youthribi.org when their enquiry will be forwarded to the District Youth Exchange Chairperson who will forward it to a local club probably via one of the Youth Exchange Team Members in Bedford, Kettering, Leicester or Grantham.

CLUB SPONSORSHIP: Students are required to be sponsored by a local Rotary Club - For Short Term, Camps & Tours and New Generations Exchanges this sponsorship involves Interviewing the family and providing fairly nominal funding which is in respect of their meals with their sponsor club before, during (STEP) and after the Exchange plus sundry small items to take with them – e.g. banners, pin badges and an RIBI RYE Polo Shirt emblazoned with the Clubs name, and a small contribution towards the cost of the local Orientation event attendance at which is mandatory for RYE candidates.

ONLY in the case of Long Term Exchanges (see ‘secondly’ above) would a ‘host Rotary Club’ be expected to provide the inbound student with pocket money, incidental expenses and arrange hosting – but WE ARE NOT OFFERING Long Term Exchanges at present.

COSTS: Students’ parents pay the cost of travel and ‘required’ insurance.

PLEASE NOTE  All Rotary Youth Exchange Programmes are open to the families of Rotarians as well as non-Rotarians, worldwide.

 

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THE FOUR EXCHANGE OPPORTUNITIES:

1. Short Term Exchange (STEP) or Summer Holiday Exchange

KEY POINTS: Students between the ages of 15 and 19 take part in family-to-family exchanges with another selected students in another country, usually for 3 to 5 weeks in each country.

PROCESS: Candidates Register Interest on the youthribi.org website. Once the family ‘interview’ has been ‘passed’ and the club has agreed to Sponsor, the student is provided with a digital Application form to complete and return to the Club Youth Exchange Officer (CYEO) or coordinator, who secures club signatures and passes it on to the DYEO/Team. Matching, in line with the students stated geographical and other preferences, is then effected by the District Youth Exchange Officer with help from the RIBI Coordinator and a matching candidate’s forms are then sent to the CYEO or coordinator to check and forward to the student and his/her family for a decision. If the decision is positive the DYEO is advised and checks if the other family are equally positive, at which point both families are authorised to make contact and arrangements are progressively agreed between them with the CYEO being kept advised.

2.  Camps & Tours

KEY POINTS: Invitations are received each year from Rotary Districts in Continental Europe but increasingly further afield, for students between the age of 15 and 25 to take part in adventure, sport or cultural camps. These are normally in the summer months, although there are ski camps in the winter.

There may be 8 to 24 young people, no more than 2 from any one country, in each camp and the common language is usually English.

PROCESS: The details of invitations to and availability of all Camps and Tours first appear on the Youth Exchange website from late December and are even before that are emailed to registered candidates, who need to apply for the place on a camp or tour that they like the look of by email without delay! District Youth Exchange Officers are advised of agreed bookings by the RIBI Camps & Tours Coordinator.

If it has not already been supplied the candidates Application Form will then be sent to the RIBI C&T Coordinator who forwards it to the foreign RYE camp organisers to secure the place.

Note: Almost all camps and tours operate on a first come first served basis and the closing dates are strict. Thus an immediate response is essentialif a candidate sees a Camp invitation that they would like to take up… if they are not fast, others will be!

3. New Generations Exchange.

KEY POINTS: this is seen as an alternative to a Gap year and may occur, for example, before or after a higher education experience. Students between the age of 18 and 25, often in groups, but can be individuals, take part in a period of perhaps vocational experience for anything between three weeks and three months. 

PROCESS: As above, the application followed by interview and sponsorship by a local Rotary Club are a requirement.

The student or the student’s parents, pay the costs of travel and required insurance.

Accommodation may be provided by host families or by the vocational institutions.  Sometimes parents of previous or current outbound students are invited to host ‘inbounds’.

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4. Long Term Exchange (LTE)

A Long Term Exchange - often called a School Year Exchange - is a reciprocal exchange i.e. one student (the OUTBOUND)  from RIBI goes to another country and their Club or possibly District hosts an INBOUND student from that country.

During the Year the students are required to attend School and participate in School activities. Students are hosted by Rotarian families, or Families selected by Rotary who have perhaps sent their own young people on Exchanges in the past.

HOSTING: In D1070 in the recent past some CYEOs made it a condition of accepting a young person as an OUTBOUND on an LTE, that the family hosted an INBOUND student in return.

The UK academic system really only suits these Long Term Exchanges when the student has completed their studies. Therefore most LTEs occur after Year 13, unless the student is not staying on, or is changing schools, for VIth form in which case an LTE after Year 11 may be possible and could be valuable.

NB As at the time of writing (June 2011) the United Kingdom Government has withdrawn VISAs for greater than six months for students from other than EU Countries – thus, Long Term Exchanges to other countries are not possible. As a result, Rotary District D1070 has no current plans for LTEPs.

2011-12 YOUTH EXCHANGE CALENDAR & DEADLINES

JUNE - JULY 2011: OUTBOUND Candidates meet their sponsor clubs and or the Rotary 1070 District Governor and receive their District goody bags

JULY – SEPT 2011: Clubs contact Local Schools for Opportunities to speak to Years 11-13

SEPTEMBER 2011: All returned Youth Exchange candidates will give presentations of their reports on the experienece they have enjoyed to meetings of their Sponsor Rotary Clubs and guests.

SEPT 2011– January 31st 2012: Talks are given to students at local Secondary Schools

SEPT 2011 – December 30th 2011: Interviews/Information meetings will take place at their homes for Camps & Tours and STEP Candidates and their families.

SEPT 2011 – March 1st 2012: Interviews/Information meetings will take place at their homes for NGE (New Generations Exchange) Candidates and their families.

SPRING 2012: Sponsor Clubs will welcome their candidate(s) to a normal club meeting

MID-MARCH 2012 : The District Orientation Event  -  Mandatory for ALL D1070 Youth Exchange candidates. Any candidate not attending will be excluded from the programme. This event will be held 10:00 - 3:30 on a Saturday after half term and before the Easter Holiday, probably in The Col. Dane Memorial Hall at Alwalton, just West of Peterborough, off the A1. The last half hour will include a parents Q&A Forum!

JUNE – JULY 2012: Sponsor clubs will welcome their candidates to a second club meeting and will provide then with ‘goody bags, banners and letters to present to their host clubs and Districts.

 

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For the Youth Exchange Website, where you can find an online enquiry form and full details of all Youth Exchange programmes as well as of individual Camps & Tours : www.youthribi.org

For District 1070 Youth Exchange on facebook go to RYE 1070 Facebook (its Open!)

To email the D1070 Youth Exchange Team: D1070.youthexchange@gmail.com

Contact points for Rotary Clubs:

D1070   Rotary Youth Exchange Team for 2011-12		Contact:	Rotary Club of:
DYEO and Chair		Colin Yarwood PHF	Peterborough Ortons
District Youth Exchange Advisers	North	Kevin Lawry	Grantham
	West	Mike Tebbutt	Kettering Huxloe
	South	Chris Horler	Bedford
	Leicester Area	John Niblett	Oadby Launde

 
Contact: D1070.youthexchange@gmail.com
Facebook: RYE 1070
Webpages: http://tinyurl.com/youth1070

2011 Rotary Youth Exchange Visitors to District 1070 being greeted by the Mayor of Peterborough.

Long Term Exchange Group, including British Students, in Quebec.