Rotary Welcomes Youth Exchange Student
For more than 40 years, Rotary Youth Exchange has been one of Rotary’s best-known programs. As an official program, it dates to 1975 — but by that time, Rotary clubs had already been sending students abroad for decades with the aim of promoting international understanding and friendship.
In September 2023, the Rotary Club of Estes Park and the Estes Valley Sunrise Rotary Club welcomed Lucia “Lucy” Miano into the Estes Park Rotary family by presenting her with an official Rotary Youth Exchange Badge.
Lucy will spend her 2023/2024 school year with 3 different families, offering an openness to new ideas and experiences, a willingness to adapt and to gain new perspectives, and an opportunity to make new friends and learn new ways of living. These are the same values that define Rotary itself.
Youth Exchange students often say their experience abroad was the best time of their lives. Being part of the program can be life-changing for Rotary members as well.
If you, or someone you know, between the ages of 15-18 years of age, Rotary’s Outbound Youth Exchange application for the 2024/2025 school year is open now through October 1st. Please contact Stacey Cole-Winsor if you are interested at staceywinsor@pm.me.