AFS Hackathon for Ideas Generates Solutions to Global Challenges
More than 300 people from 70 countries participated in the AFS Global Ideathon (4-6 September) to work collaboratively on innovative…
Global Citizenship
Empowering Teachers to Develop Global Citizenship among High School Students
150 teachers and close to 4,000 high school students will participate in the new AFS Effect+ for the Classroom program…
Young Global Citizen Expands Impact Thanks to AFS Prize
Luisa Fernanda Romero Munoz, co-founder of Get Up And Go Colombia, was awarded the first-ever 2019 AFS Prize for Young…
Global Competence Certificate for Teens Now Available Online
At a time when understanding others is more important than ever but travel remains challenging, AFS Intercultural Programs is providing…
AFS Holds a Successful Ibero-American Week of Global Education
Under the theme of: Globalize, Connect, Transform, 6,000 participants from Latin America and Europe met last week to debate the…
What We’re Learning from the Black Lives Matter Movement
By the team at AFS International We are in pain. We hear the painful outcries triggered by the murders of…
AFS to resume limited study abroad programming for 2020 with heightened safety protocols and innovative program content
Since March, when COVID-19 forced AFS to suspend study abroad programs, many AFSers have been wondering if and when our…
Global citizenship: No longer optional
by Daniel Obst, President & CEO, AFS Intercultural Programs The coronavirus has changed everyday life for everyone. This moment of…
A commitment to service in times of crisis
by Daniel Obst, President & CEO, AFS Intercultural Programs We’re living through some of the biggest challenges of our…