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Being an exchange student doesn’t only expose you to the culture of your host country, but also to the cultures of other exchange students who become your friends. I’ve been…
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Being an exchange student doesn’t only expose you to the culture of your host country, but also to the cultures of other exchange students who become your friends. I’ve been…
AFS Intercultural Programs, a global network of 60 member organizations with nearly 50,000 volunteers and programs in 99 countries, is deeply concerned about the impact of the January 2017 U.S.…
It took me just a couple of weeks to get to know nice people in my school and start hanging out with them. Being so different than others made them…
When I first arrived, before school started, I didn’t have any friends and I couldn’t speak Italian. However, when school started I met my classmates and we became friends. At…
In 1915, Harvard graduate Waldo Peirce volunteered as an ambulance driver with the American Field Service in France. After the war, Peirce went on to become an acclaimed artist with…
Marcel Mauss, a French sociologist, wrote an essay in 1925 titled The Gift, which analyzed the role that exchange plays in building social relationships. Mauss found that despite the assumption…
AFSers around the world had a lot to be proud of on International Volunteer Day, especially since they are part of an incredible volunteer legacy stretching back more than 100…
Dear AFS Volunteers and AFS Organization Development Teams, AFS volunteers are critical to educating and empowering people of all ages to take their first steps as global citizens through our…
Volunteering is rewarding in and of itself. It is an opportunity to benefit communities and individuals, to create positive change in the world, and to have fun in the meantime.…