Welcome an AFS Exchange Participant Into Your Family
Each year, AFS exchanges 11,000 outstanding high school students and teachers from around the world who want to experience what it’s like to live and study in another country.
Most families have no idea how much they’ll gain by sharing their lives with a young person from another country until they become an AFS Host Family. Imagine what it would be like having an AFS Brother or Sister from another part of the world. You can create a friendship that will last far beyond the time you share together.
This experience forever changes the lives of not only your family, but so many other people as well. What begins as an exchange of kindness, customs, and culture within a family extends throughout a high school and community to touch thousands of lives.
Why Host an AFS Exchange Participant?
AFS Host Families have reported great rewards for opening their homes and hearts to AFS Exchange Participants. By hosting an AFS Exchange Participant you, too, can:
• Enrich your family’s daily life simply by sharing it with a young person from another culture and country
• Draw your family closer together
• Introduce a new culture and customs to your children
• Show your part of India to an outstanding young person or teacher from another country
• Meet your community leaders by participating in AFS activities
• See India and our culture through new eyes
• Develop a lifelong connection with your hosted participant and his or her family
• Help an outstanding young person or teacher grow into a more confident and knowledgeable adult
