The Uxbridge Rotary Youth and Vocational Committee is a very active committee with many programs benefiting youth as follows:

 

 

For many years we have sent a student from Uxbridge to spend a year living in another country, nurtured by the local Rotary club. This year Katie Ottolini was chosen and is currently living with a Rotarian family in Argentina. We in turn take in an inbound student: Ruana Godoy from Sao Paulo, Brazil is our student here in Uxbridge.

The Rotary Youth Exchanges are an opportunity for youth to experience another culture first hand and in most cases become fluent in the host countries’ language, and make lifelong friends.

 

 

 We fund the cost of sending a student with leadership qualities to a one-week program at Loyalist College, Belleville each year. RYLA students learn their own strengths and abilities and further their leadership qualities.

 

Each year the Y & V Committee assembles a group of Rotarian volunteers to go into the local Grade 8 classes and teach a daylong Junior Achievement program. ESIS focuses on the benefits of further education, the need for budgeting, cost of living and related materials. The program goes a long way towards opening the students’ eyes to the working world of their parents and what they will experience once on their own.

 

We join forces with other community organization to assist in funding medical assistance for disabled youth.

 

Every year an interested student is given the opportunity to go to Ottawa to first-hand experience the workings of government.

 

 

Rotary has supported the local Youth Centre with a donation of $3,000; a program that we feel is much needed in our community

 

 

In 2009 Uxbridge Rotary implemented a literacy program by purchasing interactive software for Computer Aided Learning Systems (CALS), a Library based program that helps students raise their reading levels before entering high school.

 

 

We provide a $500.00 scholarship for a local student excelling in music.

 

 

We are ongoing supporters of Precious Minds, a local initiative assisting challenged children, providing funds to maintain their library.

 

 

We provide $700.00 for an annual Community Service Award to be given to a worthy student.

 

 

We support our local High school’s Interact Club, an introductory Rotary club giving youth a chance to do good works to benefit others.