AFS USA is seeking a few more host families for the 2015-16 school year so that all of our students can come to the US this year.
The Dunwoody community has been great about hosting exchange students – both short and long term. We are hoping to find one or two more families might open their hearts and homes to great high school students from around the world who are seeking a cultural exchange experience in the US.
If it is too much to host a student for a full year, consider sharing the year with another family that you know. In this way, you and your family gain the experience, and the student gains many more moms/dads/sisters/brothers to know for a lifetime!
Each year, AFS Intercultural Programs welcomes more than 2,300 international high school students to the US. These are outstanding young people who were selected in their home countries to study in US high schools and are eager to experience what it’s like to live in America. Sharing daily life with a teenager from another country and culture is a rich and rewarding experience and is a wonderful way for you and your family to bring more understanding into the world.
Local Atlanta AFS Volunteers will support you and your hosted student throughout your experience to help you both receive the most from your time together. You provide a bed and meals for your student, but most importantly, you should be eager and excited to share your life and activities while providing the same kind of care, support, and comfort as you would to your own child or family members. AFS welcomes all kinds of families.
If you are interested in learning more, or seeing profiles of students available, please visit our website at www.afsusa.org and fill out an interest form. Or, if you want to talk with a local, live person, please call Ruth Blackstock.
Contact:
Ruth Blackstock
(404) 406-2917
afsgeorgia@gmail.com
