Watch: How One AFS Returnee Makes a Difference in Her Community Imagine a restaurant where everyone can afford to eat, where those who are struggling can pay what they can or even volunteer for their meal. “A Place at the Table” is a café founded by Margaret Kane, an AFS Returnee, who wants to make […]
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YES Alumna Bring Volunteerism Home Nadege Flora Ndum Dze, an AFS-hosted YES alumna from Cameroon, talks about how volunteerism in the U.S. continues to inspire her to foster community service back home. From developing her own programs to volunteering with local organizations, Nadege actively volunteers in her community and would like to eventually design programs […]
AFS Student Talks About Studying Abroad in the U.S. An AFS Student from South Africa returns home and remembers the valuable intercultural lessons she learned and the unforgettable experience she had while studying abroad in the U.S. Read more at Highway Mail. A Glimpse of an AFS Student’s Life in the U.S. Shawn Lange, an […]
YES Alumna Advocates for Human Rights AFS-hosted YES Alumna, Maria Ana Espinosa, is now a law student back in her home country and credits her study abroad experience as the main reason why she wants to be a human rights lawyer. She is currently a member of the Human Right Advocates (HRA) in the Philippines […]
FoA Scholarship Recipient: Jasmine Whitley Jasmine Whitley, a recent AFS-USA Faces of America scholarship recipient, was interviewed in a local Missouri publication. Studying abroad with AFS marked several milestones for Whitley: she is the first student in her high school to study abroad and it was the first time she traveled internationally. Her participation was […]
Maryland Students Awarded CBYX Scholarship Nyah Cameron Johnson, a high school student from Maryland, is one of 250 students who received a Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange (CBYX) scholarship this year. She will spend the 2018 to 2019 academic year living and attending school in Germany through the scholarship program. Read more about the student and the […]
An AFS Student’s Study Abroad Experience in Japan A local California publication wrote about Michael Gery, an AFS Returnee who just returned home from studying abroad in Japan for the summer. Read about Michael and his experience at Mountain Democrat. An Italian AFSer Revisits His U.S. Host Family in Minnesota Gianluca Cicconi was hosted […]
Student Spends Last Year of High School in the Philippines A local New Jersey publication profiled Colin Vega, an AFS Returnee, who recently returned from studying abroad in the Philippines and will soon attend Princeton University this fall. The article described differing cultural experiences Colin had while he was living and going to school in […]
Minnesota High School Student Wins AFS-USA’s Project: Change Contest The Grand Prize winner of this year’s Project: Change contest was featured in a local Minnesota publication. Clare Gagne, a student from Orono, MN, submitted a volunteer idea to use arts, music, and athletics to empower children in Kenya. As the winner, Clare received a full […]
Below are articles that mentioned AFS in the media within the last several weeks. Please use them as applicable in promoting our work and mission. AFS Returnees Visit their Host Community, Forty Years Later Two AFS Returnees from Belgium and South Africa, respectively, visited the Illinois high school they attended during their exchange year. “I’m […]