International education and cultural exchange activities include pre or post-convention home stays, Rotary Friendship Exchange, and Rotary recreational and vocational fellowships.
International Service
International Education
and Cultural Exchange
Orangevale making impact
in the world
The Rotary Foundation supports ambassadorial scholarships, Group Study Exchanges (GSE), Rotary Youth Exchange (RYE), World Community Service Projects (WCS)/Matching Grants, and the Polio Plus Program.
International Education and Cultural Exchange Activities
Pre- or Post-Convention Home Stays
Five hundred and thirty incoming District Governors Elect attend an International Assembly in southern California annually in February for seven days of training. In 2001, three couples from the Rotary Club of Orangevale offered their homes for three DGE's and their spouses to visit after the International Assembly for four days.
Rotary Friendship Exchange
Three members of the Orangevale Club, together with couples from the Rotary Clubs of Roseville and Gridley represented District 5180 on an exchange with England's District 1100. The two week trip was held during the month of October, 2000. Another Friendship Exchange is planned for the fall of 2001, this time to Brazil.
Rotary Recreational and Vocational Fellowships
Several Orangevale Rotarians belong to and participate in some of the lesser-known groups which are part of Rotary International. Members are involved in the Rotary Bikers Group and the International Fellowship of Flying Rotarians. Click here for more information on additional Recreational and Vocational Fellowships.
Rotary International Foundation
Group Study Exchange
District 5180 annually organizes an exchange of about six weeks duration for a team of young professionals who are not Rotarians, led by a Rotarian, to visit colleagues with similar vocations in another country. The exchange occurs in the spring, usually around the time of the District 5180 Conference in May. This year's exchange program is with Belgium. An Orangevale Rotarian will host one of the GSE team members from May 13 - 18.
Orangevale Rotary sponsors an outgoing and an incoming youth (usually 17 - 18 years of age) in this exchange program which goes from August of one year to June of the next. The students have the opportunity to live with three host families during that time. Within District 5180 the countries involved in the exchange are Argentina, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Japan, Spain, and Sweden. For the 2001-2002 year, the club is sponsoring one outgoing and two incoming students, from France and Germany. The application process occurs in the fall of each year for the following academic year.
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Rotary Youth Exchange students
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Constancz Nehring , from Germany and Lasse Hafren from Finland |
See some of our Past RYE Students
Ambassadorial Scholarships
The Foundation's oldest and best-known Ambassadorial Scholarships are of
three types. Academic-Year Ambassadorial Scholarship: Candidates may
be of any age so long as they have completed two years of University study
or appropriate professional experience prior to commencement of the scholarship.
Ambassadorial Scholarship: This scholarship is for two years
of full time degree-oriented study at an institution assigned by the
Rotarian Foundation Trustees.
Cultural Ambassadorial Scholarship: This scholarship may be either
a three or six month award for intensive language training and cultural immersion
in another country.
World Community Service Projects/Matching Grants
Rotary International serves as a clearinghouse for thousands of service projects around the world. Of these Orangevale Rotary is involved with two projects in the Philippines.
Waste Management
This project is designed to help create a clean environment for the residents
of Barangay Camp Crame by installing 200 garbage cans throughout Barangay
to substantially improve public sanitation.
School for Deaf Children
This project is designed to assist Manila's only public school for the deaf.
The Orangevale Rotary Club has donated funds for the local Rotary Club in
Manila to purchase amplifiers and head phones to train students to use any
residual hearing.
Matching Grant - Task Force 2000, Avoidable Blindness
One of RI President Frank Devlyn's major initiatives for 2000-2001 is
to reduce avoidable blindness. The Orangevale Rotary Club has contributed
funds which will provide cataract operations for eighteen blind people
in India. These funds will be matched by RI. This will enable them to
regain their vision and help them become productive citizens.
Wheel Chairs
In 2002, this project was designed to help those physically handicapped
with wheel chairs. The Orangevale Rotary club raised funds to purchase
and delivery 6 wheel chairs to those who are disadvantaged in Veracruz,
Mexico. The wheel chairs were sent to the Rotary Club Fortin De Las
Flores, Veracruz, Mexico for distribution to the needy
Due to the tremendous efforts of Rotary International, the United Nations Children's Fund, the World Health Organization, and Centers for Disease Control, the number of cases of polio in the world has dropped from an estimated 350,000 in 1988, when Rotary initiated the eradication program, to 5,200 in 1999. In Africa and Southern Asia, polio remains most prevalent. Polio's crippled victims sometimes are hidden away at home or forced to beg on the streets on homemade crutches or Wheelchairs (if they are lucky) or on callused hands, for their livelihood. For the want of just two drops of oral vaccine per child, poliomyelitis has crippled millions of children around the world. Rotary and the other organizations are now involved in a final push to eradicate polio completely from our planet.
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