Seguin TX Rotary - Youth Exchange

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. A long-term exchange lasts for an academic year. Students stay with 2-3 host families and are required to attend school in their host 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

Youth Exchange allows students to meet people from other countries and experience their culture firsthand. It also allows them to gain a better understanding of the basic needs we all share and the diversity that makes each culture unique.

CLICK HERE for a historical listing of our Inbound Exchange Students.

CLICK HERE for a historical listing of our Outbound Exchange Students.

CLICK HERE to visit the South Central Rotary Youth Exchange website.

South Central Rotary Youth Exchange (SCRYE) consists of 36 member districts that cover 15 states in the south and central part of the country. The mission of SCRYE is to promote and facilitate Rotary International Youth Exchange for its member Rotary districts.