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HOLLIS BROOKLINE ROTARY also supports the Short-Stay Exchange, a family-to-family program in which a local family and a foreign family each host the other's child (between the ages of 15 and 18 1/2 years) for a few weeks each. These short-stay exchanges happen during the summer. Exchanges can be arranged with most countries for not less than three weeks and not more than six weeks each in the U.S. and in the foreign country.
Applications for the short-stay exchange should be completed before school ends, because short-stay departures begin soon after!

HOLLIS BROOKLINE ROTARY SEEKS applicants for the life-expanding Rotary Long-Term Exchange (ten full months spent abroad in 2024-25)! In each year the Club sponsors just one inbound (foreign) and one outbound (only Brookline- or Hollis-resident) exchange student, both of them for the full academic year. The inbounder attends HBHS and lives with two or three Hollis- and Brookline-resident families. The outbounder lives with families in one of the approximately 40 countries in which she/he will live and study. To apply, or just for more information, email exchange@hbrotary.org or call (978) 743-6143 !

!!! TIMING IS EVERYTHING !!! It takes a surprising amount of time to prepare the long-stay application, to go through the screening process, and then to get ready to go out. And of course high-school students (and their parents!) are some of the busiest people in the world, so grabbing their attention for the necessary chunks of time is a challenge. The first-draft long-stay application should be substantially completed by mid September 2023 for the 2024-25 year. It is not too soon to start!
Contact us, and we can help you with the application process.