Club seeks 3 host families for exchange student

    The Derby-Shelton Rotary Club is seeking three families in Derby to host an Exchange Student from Turkey for the 2012-2013 academic year. 
    The student has been accepted at Derby High School, where he will be a member of the junior class.

    The Exchange Program is overseen by Rotary District 7980, and has a very comprehensive set of policies for the behavior of incoming and outgoing students and their host homes, that includes restrictions on driving, drinking, drug use and school attendance.

    Rather than ask one family to host a student for an entire year, each family is asked to host the student for approximately three and one half months. 
    There is no compensation to the families, though the Derby-Shelton Rotary Club will provide the student with a spending allowance to pay for activities.
      Rotary District 7980 provides a local coordinator to check in with the student and family, and approximately once per month holds an event or trip for all of the Exchange Students in the area.  Exchange Students are not allowed go on trips independently without adult supervision, though they are encouraged to get involved in social activities with other youth in the school they are attending.
    The host family does not need to have a child attending the high school though it is preferable there are other children in the home.
 The Turkish Exchange Student is 16, speaks English and is a good student. Travel arrangements must be made soon
    If interested, call Michael Wynne, Youth Exchange Officer, Derby-Shelton Rotary Club, 203.954-0543 ext. 112, or at mwynne@LNVPCRC.org.


The above was provided by Lauren P. Kazzi, vice president of image, Derby-Shelton Rotary Club.