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Pittsfield Rotary Club seeks host families for a Rotary Youth Exchange student. We are seeking families to host an exchange student for the 2025-2026 academic school year. Students typically stay with a family for 3-6 months (ideally, we’re looking for 3 families to cover the academic year) and will receive training and support from Rotary to make this a success. Currently, we believe we are looking to welcome a student from Argentina to Pittsfield.
Briefly, we are looking for families to provide a safe and welcoming environment for trust and friendship to develop between the student and your family. This includes providing room and board for the student. All students must have their own bed. If the student must share a room, it should be with a child of the same gender and similar age. Successful families will teach the student about the local culture, and learn about the student’s culture. The Rotary Club & District have Exchange officers & councilors to help support the student and families to make it a successful year. You can find more information about being a host family in the Rotary International guide for host families: Do you know someone that would be a great host? Maybe your house is a little empty these days? This is a great opportunity to welcome a student here and share our wonderful community with them. Hosts report that it is such a fulfilling experience for the host family, too. We're hoping to identify families to serve as hosts, so that at maximum it would be a commitment of half of the school year including someone new in your family. What do you say? Can you volunteer or recommend someone? Please share your ideas with me. Give me a call -- 413-441-8036 -- and let's figure out something great for a student! Thank you for your consideration, -Alex Alex Reczkowski Pittsfield Rotary Club Secretary. |
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