Families needed for exchange students
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Did you know that your family can become part of a 60-year-old international peace movement by hosting an AFS exchange student next school year? You can make a real difference for peace by opening your heart and your home to someone from another culture who wants to know Americans better and has a fascinating culture of his or her own to share with you.
In 1947 AFS Intercultural Exchange was founded by volunteer ambulance drivers of the American Field Service from World Wars I and II. Saddened by all the deaths and injuries they'd seen, they wanted to find a way to help people keep from going to war again. Their plan was to build intercultural understanding through the placement of teenagers in families in other cultures. Today approximately 11,000 students experience AFS exchanges annually; 2,800 of them come to the US to follow the ambulance drivers' dream.
Oshkosh has been part of the AFS tradition since 1950, when a German girl named Gabriela Borbein was hosted by John Mosling. Now over 100 people from other countries look happily back at their year as AFS high school exchange students in Oshkosh. Maybe your family hosted one of them, or you may remember an AFS student from your own high school years somewhere else. If so, you are already part of this huge peace movement! Currently Camille Prat from France is an AFS student at Oshkosh West, and Diandra Sabrina from Indonesia is an AFS student at Oshkosh North.
In 2003, AFS joined a small group of other exchange organizations to administer the YES program, which provides full scholarships to students from countries with significant Muslim populations. This is truly an organization that is DOING something about bringing peace to the world.
Please consider hosting an AFS exchange student for the coming school year. Students do not need a private room, but simply their own bed, meals, and a family which will include them as a member for the year --- or a lifetime. If you personally cannot host someone, please encourage anyone else you know who may be able to. It's really a wonderful growing experience for any family. You do not need to have high school aged children, or children of any age, to apply to be an AFS host family.
To learn more about AFS, you can go to www.usa.afs.org, or you may call me to find out about hosting a student. High school students who are interested in going abroad as exchange students themselves will find a lot of resources on that website, and are very welcome to contact me too.
I hope to hear from you!
Mary Ann Offer
Oshkosh AFS Chapter Coordinator
920-424-9922
Did you know that your family can become part of a 60-year-old international peace movement by hosting an AFS exchange student next school year? You can make a real difference for peace by opening your heart and your home to someone from another culture who wants to know Americans better and has a fascinating culture of his or her own to share with you.
In 1947 AFS Intercultural Exchange was founded by volunteer ambulance drivers of the American Field Service from World Wars I and II. Saddened by all the deaths and injuries they'd seen, they wanted to find a way to help people keep from going to war again. Their plan was to build intercultural understanding through the placement of teenagers in families in other cultures. Today approximately 11,000 students experience AFS exchanges annually; 2,800 of them come to the US to follow the ambulance drivers' dream.
Oshkosh has been part of the AFS tradition since 1950, when a German girl named Gabriela Borbein was hosted by John Mosling. Now over 100 people from other countries look happily back at their year as AFS high school exchange students in Oshkosh. Maybe your family hosted one of them, or you may remember an AFS student from your own high school years somewhere else. If so, you are already part of this huge peace movement! Currently Camille Prat from France is an AFS student at Oshkosh West, and Diandra Sabrina from Indonesia is an AFS student at Oshkosh North.
In 2003, AFS joined a small group of other exchange organizations to administer the YES program, which provides full scholarships to students from countries with significant Muslim populations. This is truly an organization that is DOING something about bringing peace to the world.
Please consider hosting an AFS exchange student for the coming school year. Students do not need a private room, but simply their own bed, meals, and a family which will include them as a member for the year --- or a lifetime. If you personally cannot host someone, please encourage anyone else you know who may be able to. It's really a wonderful growing experience for any family. You do not need to have high school aged children, or children of any age, to apply to be an AFS host family.
To learn more about AFS, you can go to www.usa.afs.org, or you may call me to find out about hosting a student. High school students who are interested in going abroad as exchange students themselves will find a lot of resources on that website, and are very welcome to contact me too.
I hope to hear from you!
Mary Ann Offer
Oshkosh AFS Chapter Coordinator
920-424-9922
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