Media Brief: Hosting Stories

Media Brief: Hosting Stories

An AFS Experience in Michigan

A local Michigan publication interviewed an AFS Host Family and two YES students about their intercultural exchange adventure in Ida, Michigan. Read the full article at The Monroe News.

Sharing Intercultural Exchange Experiences Through Hosting

A local Maine publication wrote about the benefits of hosting AFS Students in their homes and in their communities. “I do believe that exchange students bring so much to our school community and hope we can continue to find families to host students from far and wide,” said one AFS Host Family Member interviewed in the article. Read the full story at Village Soup.

AFS Host Families Form Lifelong Bonds with Students

A Delaware publication interviewed two AFS Host Families who talked about the positive impacts of hosting exchange students. Read the full article at Town Square Delaware.

A Story of One AFS Alumna’s Lifelong Relationship with Her Host Family

Even after 58 years, AFS Alumna Beatrice “Taty” deMoras of Chile has remained in close contact with her host family in the U.S. Read about deMoras’s lifelong bond with the Kneen family of Mentor-on-the-Lake, Ohio at The News-Herald.