SEE (Summer Exchange Experience)

Would YOU, or someone you know, like to

SEE the World?

Rotary District 7210’s 

Short term exchange may be what you’re looking for!

Summer Exchange Experience (SEE)

* Family to Family exchange: 3-4 weeks abroad living with a “host family”, plus 3-4 weeks hosting your “sibling” from abroad here in your Hudson Valley home.
• SEE’s purpose is to promote international peace, goodwill and understanding through cultural exchange. You are our ambassador!
• Successful country choices have included Austria, France, Italy, Spain, Germany.  Matches possible elsewhere in Europe, Latin America, Africa, Asia.
• Applicants must be in grades 9-11 during the school year before the summer of travel, must have all vaccinations--no exemptions. Matches based on participant age, gender, country preferences & interests.

• Rotary or Interact families preferred but not required.
• You must be sponsored by a Rotary Club.  Applicants will be contacted by an appropriate Rotary club to follow up on your initial application. 
• All costs paid by participants, including airfare, spending money, optional host gifts, and costs of hosting/entertaining your “sibling” from abroad here at your home. The Rotary fee is $500--for insurance, orientation, and exchange program administration ($200 non-refundable at District interview; $300 at time of match).
• Applicant/Parent responsibilities include application, interview, coordination with local Rotary Club, Passport/Visas, hosting & entertaining the “sibling” from abroad.

• To request an application, email SEE Chair Michael Frazier at michaelfrazier@earthlink.net. 

Completed applications are due no later than November 15 before the summer of travel. 

An initial interview in your home will be followed by a District-level interview.
• Local Rotary Club responsibilities include program promotion, application review & approval, interviews at applicant’s home to confirm conformance to hosting requirements, general support to local family while hosting.