A big Thank You to the Perham Dent community from The Netherlands Written By: Jooske Haije, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands | 8:08 am, Dec. 30, 2020 × Did you know you have a reader in the Netherlands, Europe? After reading the article on community service clubs in the Perham Focus of December 4th, I just had to write to you as a former exchange student in ‘94/’95 at Perham High School. Your work is important in the local community – and it stretches out far beyond that. Through the youth exchange program, you give local teens the opportunity to spend time abroad and kids from all around to get to know your community from the inside and share their culture. I am a firm believer in the impact of these exchange programs. Through them, we learn about other people and also about ourselves in a profound way. It is interesting and fun to learn about different perspectives and to find out we have much in common and we can laugh together.