2008-09 Group Study Exchange Starts Search!
The Group Study Exchange committee co-chaired by Bob Faehnle and Gerry Hornick is looking for people to become involved with GSE. We encourage you to submit your email address to bfaehnle@gmail.com to become involved. Meeting times, dates and locations will be published soon.
Northeast Ohio Rotary Announces Group Study Exchange Destination (click to read)
Team Applications & Interviews
Team Leader - September 1
Team Leader interviews mid-September
Team Member applications- September 29 (can be extended if we're not getting the response)
Team Member Interviews - October 20
Dates for exchange to take place...
District Conference is May 1 and 2, 2009
Outbound Team dates mid-April to Mid-May
Inbound Team dates April 19, 2009 to May 17, 2009
GSE Team Leader Applications Due Now Through September 15
Visit Rotary.org, search GSE Downloads for applications. Our exchange is with District 9110 (Nigeria) and we are focusing on the specific exchange topics: Literacy, Water, Health/hunger, and Art/Music.
If you are interested in learning about Nigerian culture, customs, economic development, vocational development and more, contact the District 6630 GSE Chairman. Becoming a GSE Team Leader is a lifetime experience
Bob Faehnle and Gerry Hornick
Group Study Exchange
2008-09 Co-Chair
Rotary District 6630
Chardon Rotary Club
440-477-3413
Group Study Exchange (GSE), an educational activity of The Rotary Foundation, offers a unique person-to-person opportunity for the promotion of better understanding and friendly relation among the peoples of the world. The program provides travel grants for the exchange of teams of young business and professional people between paired districts in different countries, enabling them to study the institutions and ways of life of their hosts and to develop personal acquaintances and exchange ideas. These young people bring personal knowledge of their own country to the thousands they meet while abroad. And from their study of another country - their observations of its customs, their explorations to its business and professional life, their meetings and discussions with its people - come many opportunities for the development of understanding and lasting friendships.
Over a two-year period each of the paired districts must both send and receive a team (Based on the safety factors of each country). A district selects a team of four outstanding people and a Rotary Club member, as Team Leader who represent a cross-section of business and professions in the district, and sends them to a district in another country for a study program of not less than four weeks and not more than six weeks
The leadership instinct you are born with is the backbone. You develop the funny bone and the wishbone that go with it.
- Elaine Agather
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