Rotex also lends support to Rotary International in choosing the future exchange students. It assists with student interviews, briefing sessions where advice is given to the students on how they should prepare themselves for the year ahead and debriefing sessions when the students return. Rotex provides a support service in the readaptation of the students. The parents of Rotex members also provide a valuable service. Having had a child away on exchange they provide excellent advice to the parents of the outbound students and play a role in the briefing sessions for parents and students.

This is a program designed by Rotex to provide the best possible support to the exchange students hosted by clubs in the district. Each exchange student is paired up with a member of Rotex who has returned from the student’s country or is able to speak the student’s native language. The Rotex member keeps close contact with the student, providing assistance and above all acting as a friend to the student and someone they can depend on. Students often turn to Rotex when they are homesick or have problems related to things other than Rotary.

Rotex provides assistance in English to any exchange students who are having difficulties in the first few months of their stay. We also provide assistance to those student who are going to other countries and require a basic knowledge of the language before leaving.