Assistant Governors

As an AG for your clubs, you can play a key roll in helping to facilitate and promote the Rotary Youth Exchange Program.

You are always invited to attend the training that we provide for YEOs ...they typically happen on the first Saturday of March, and the near the last Saturday of August ... please see the calendar for exact dates.

The information you will get at PETS will hopefully be valuable, but will tend to be brief, and of course, comes at a time when you are presented with a lot of other information.

Clubs will tend to have similar problems, and so by helping them to communicate with each other, you can help them problem solve.   Common problems include:

•  How to find host families

•  How to promote the program

•  How to get a YEO in the club from the members

•  How to get more information on the program.

Please note that clubs can help each other ... if one of your area's clubs is very small, and cannot get a member to become a YEO, you can ask a neighboring club if they might "lend" their YEO services to that club ... that way the small club can contribute funding and support, but the larger club can help with a trained individual.

You can also remind and encourage clubs with current students (either Inbound, Outbound, or Rebound) to send a representative to the District Conference to help share ideas, gather new ideas, and in general "show off" the club's achievements.

Suggested Goals as an AG would include:

1) Have each your clubs make sure they have designated one club member as a YEO, and encourage that YEO to make sure they are trained and are in contact with the RYE district committee

2) Encourage at least one member of the clubs in your area to be part of the Distrcit RYE committee

3) Encourage your clubs to work together so that at least one club in your area Hosts an Inbound student from abroad, and at least one club Sponsors an Amercian student to go abroad each year.    This could help smaller clubs gain financial or other support from larger clubs, or simply pool rescources.   Once one club in the area has participated in Exchange, it is often easier to create a network of families and Rotarians that can make future exchanges easier

4) Encourage any High Schools Guidance counselors, Foreign Language Teachers, and Interact clubs in your area to annually promote the Rotary Youth Exchagne program to their students