The mission of the Rotary Youth Exchange
is to foster World peace, international understanding and goodwill by extending
international communication at the personal level through the exchange of
students of high school age. What began in Copenhagen, Denmark the Rotary
International Youth Exchange program has run continually since 1929, and here
locally since 1970. For over forty years the Appleton Downtown Rotary has
sponsored from our community student goodwill ambassadors to all parts of the
globe. That is quite an achieved we all can be proud of. Annually, over 29,000 students from 78
countries around the world share their cultures with the Rotary Youth Exchange
program and continue in the traditions of the RYE program. It is Rotary’s 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, color and creeds other
than their own. Two “outbound” Rotary Youth Exchange students
Abigail Skorzewski and Isaiah Higgs, who since there selection last October
have been attending numerous Rotary conferences and workshops in preparation of
their upcoming exchange experience beginning this fall. They will share their individual Power Point
presentations required by the RYE programs to do numerous presentation to
Rotary clubs in their host countries. Abbie will be doing her exchange in
Ecuador and Isaiah is doing his exchange in Poland. Without the club’s support the Rotary Youth
Exchange program would not function so many thanks to all. Please follow Abby Skorzewski on her blog www.luke219.weebly.com.
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