Rockford Rotary Youth Exchange – Need Host Families
The main purpose of Rotary Youth Exchange is to help inspire young leaders to become international ambassadors to serve as catalysts for peace and social justice in their local communities and throughout the world, long after their exchanges end.
We now have confirmation of who our Rotary Youth Exchange student is for academic year 2024/25. Timeo Paolo Gimbals is a boy from Belgium. He will be a senior. His native language is French, but he does speak and read English. He was rated fair in speaking and good in reading. He is passionate about science and the animal world and plans to study veterinary medicine after his exchange year. He also plays basketball, is a runner and plays the piano and drums.
Rotary works with the students to obtain their student Visas from the State Dept. before purchasing the roundtrip ticket for their year abroad. Rotary also requires every exchange student to purchase a specific health insurance policy that Rotary specifies. Rotary also provides host families and the exchange students with training to help develop an excellent relationship that will last a lifetime.
We have found a host family for Timeo for the first session which is through December 31, 2024. He will be attending Harlem High School.
We are looking for host families that would be able to get Timeo to Harlem High School, so you don't have to live in the Harlem School District just be able to get him there. Again, we will be splitting up the time frame from January 2025 to July 2025 into 2 slots. If you know someone that might be interested, please contact
Paul Von Driska at 815.222.6748 or pvondriska@bergstrominc.com.
Thank you!