Youth Exchange is one of Rotary International’s structured programs designed to help clubs and districts achieve their service goals in their own communities and in communities abroad, fostering fellowship and goodwill in the process. 

What is Youth Exchange?

The long-term Youth Exchange program is an exchange program for secondary school students. Students travel to other countries to learn about the culture and the language as well as act as a cultural ambassador for their own country.

Youth Exchange Goals

• Provides young people with the opportunity to experience cultures other than their own
• Gives participants a broader view of the world and a deeper understanding of themselves
• Develops leadership and communication skills in youth
• Advances international understanding and world peace

Benefits of Youth Exchange

Meet people from other countries and experience their culture firsthand and to gain a better understanding of the basic needs we all share and the diversity that makes each culture unique

Facts of Youth Exchange

• More than 8,000 students have participated each year in over 60 countries
• 86% of all Rotary Districts participate in the Youth Exchange Program
• Rotary Youth Exchange is affordable exchange program
• Rotary Youth Exchange is open to the children of Rotarians and non-Rotarians alike