Q&A with Conard High School’s AFS Exchange Student

Among the first in a series titled “Opening our homes and minds: West Hartford’s AFS foreign exchange students and their host families,” a local Connecticut news website published a Q&A interview with an AFS student from Switzerland. AFS-USA Returnee and Volunteer, Jamie Cohen, interviewed the exchange student for the article. Read the Q&A on We-Ha.com.

YES Student of the Month: Firaz Perisan

October’s YES Student of the Month award goes to Firaz Perisan, a high school student from Turkey who has demonstrated the spirit of volunteerism since he arrived in Roseville, C.A. In August, Perisan donated his hair to an organization that creates free wigs for children with medical conditions. In addition, he devotes time every week to volunteering in his community. Read more about Perisan on YES Program’s Stories page.

Reunion Story: AFS Student Visits Host Family in New York After 47 Years

Eduardo Castro was an exchange student from Ecuador who studied abroad in Dunkirk, N.Y. in 1970. Forty seven years later, he returned to Dunkirk to visit his host family, the Kuzaras, and reminisced with them about his experience as an exchange student. Read about Castro and the Kuzara family on Observer Today.