AFS Intercultural Programs India.

Understanding culture and its importance in human interaction and communication; being sensitive to persons who are culturally different; recognizing that culturally different persons have their own values and beliefs; and understanding that persons from other cultures may be experiencing the challenges of cultural adjustment, are issues related to cultural awareness that AFS India will take into consideration when running programs.

AFS India will reinforce cultural self-awareness, having students reflect on their own cultural identity, recognize their own cultural values, and consider how these might play out in another culture or a culturally diverse environment. Cultural self-awareness is clearly one of the learning goals to take into consideration when running programs at AFS.

AFS India will also seek to help uplift the disadvantaged minorities and groups within India, for whom educational opportunities and learning skills are not often easily accessible. This would contribute to bring on parity different sections of the society, especially those who may never have an opportunity to undertake such a mind-opening experience. AFS India would seek the active participation of other like-minded organizations, NGO´s and the government.

AFS India will organize and promote exchanges between regions within India´s territory. The finding of scholarships it is very important to increase diversity, it will constitute a priority starting 2008 once all operational systems are well in place and we are ready to focus on external activities.

AFS India will promote openness to other ways of thinking and to cultural differences as well as empathy, defined as the capacity to view experience in the manner of the other, ‘people-skills’ necessary for working, communicating and interacting with persons from other cultures and will promote the ability to negotiate differences by understanding more than one cultural context and also by being self-reflective and being flexible and adaptable to new cultural circumstances and persons.

• More immersion into more cultures.
• Experience with international exchange since 1919.
• More than 30,000 active volunteers in over 50 countries.
• Program support and risk management.
• More than 325,000 program alumni.

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