On
July 22 our District had the last Outbound student orientation session
for this group that leaves on August 2006. All 45 students plus the
parents attended this session where each one got the official YE badge
with their name.The key-not speaker was the well-known businesswoman and entrepreneur Luziana Lanna, hersef a mother of a former Rotary YE and a past Rotarian. Mrs. Lanna owns a chain of language schools that have over 6,000 students. She told the students of the important role they will have as Brazilian Ambassadors and how this exchange year abroad can mean a lot for their lives. Several themes were discussed mainly related to actions to be taken before departure and right after arrival in the host country including stressing the need to learn the host language by studying harder as soon as arriving abroad. For the first time in Brazil, a Training on Abuse Prevention was given to outbound students according to a Manual prepared for skilled professinals hired by Rotary International. This Training was translated into Portuguese by our District for this session and it will be mandatory for all students in Rotary world next year. |
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For 3 days in June at the swedish city of Malmo,
around 300 Youth Exchange officers from all over the world participate
in the annual meeting as a Pre Convention of Rotary International. District
4760 was there represented by Ana Maria Pimenta - who also is a member
of R.I. YE Committee - and by Ivan Vianna, both were also speakers during
that meeting. |