RECRUITING BEGINS
TIME TO RECRUIT YOUTH EXCHANGE STUDENTS!! Summer is over and school has started, and so has the season to recruit high school students for long and short term Youth Exchange opportunities. If you know of any high school aged youths that should consider it, please encourage them to do so and research www.rotaryye7090.org for more information.
Dakota Reynolds just left for Australia. She sees her exchange as an international education and writes: “Along with the benefits of an international education comes social responsibility.” Clearly, Dakota does not see her exchange as just an adventure. By sending her on exchange, we are all working towards making this place a better world.
Back in May in the preparation for her exchange, she observed, why a Rotary exchange is so different from the many others that exist. She wrote: “This week I was blessed with the opportunity to speak in front of CEO's and so many influential people from across the country for the annual NAF Benefit in NYC. Everywhere I seem to travel I run into another "Rotary Person". I met an amazing man who is at the top IBM. He told me that years ago he was an exchange student though Rotary and he came to the US from India. Turns out he impressed a lot of people during his year and ended up staying here for college and working his way up to the top of this huge company. I talked to another handful of influential business professionals throughout the night who also had similar stories. Rotary seems to be everywhere I turn and it allowed me to have the chance to be the Student Speaker at last night's benefit. The opportunity has already begun to open up doors for me and I'm not even a real exchange student yet! I just wanted to send you a quick message and thank you and Rotary for everything, because it truly has already begun to change my life.”
This all happened even before she went out, just imagine what the rest of her life will be like. Let’s go out and find the next Dakota! Thanks for your support for this program.