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 […]
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YES Student’s Experience at the UNICEF Annual Summit An AFS-hosted YES Student, Isheka Agarwal, talks about the inspirational experience she had at the UNICEF Annual Summit. Encouraged by the event, she plans to start a UNICEF club back home and hopes to start a children’s health program in her community. Read her story at YES […]
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AFS Students Talk About Life in Minnesota Four AFS Students, who spent eight months studying abroad in Marshall, Minnesota, shared their experience with residents at a community center last week. Read about each of the students’ experiences at Marshall Independent. Local Cleveland High School Celebrates AFS Just in time for AFS-USA’s National Volunteer Assembly […]
“A Life in a Year” for a YES Student Narintorn Kaweekt was a YES Student from Thailand who was hosted with AFS in New York. She wrote about the life-changing experience she had, and the friends and family she gained through studying abroad. Read about her experience on YES Stories. Intercultural Exchange in Kenai, […]
Use these pieces to promote AFS in your area and as inspiration for pitching stories to your local media outlets!
How Studying Abroad Has Broadened an AFSer’s Perspective Kyla McKim had a fruitful study abroad experience in Germany last year. As the recipient of the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange scholarship program, she traveled from Pennsylvania to Germany to study abroad for 10 months. During her time as an exchange student, she learned how to assimilate to […]
AFS has been mentioned in several articles within the past few weeks. Please use these stories to help promote our work and mission.
This week’s stories are great examples of AFS-USA programs, students and families featured in the media. You can use these pieces to promote AFS in your area and as inspiration for pitching stories to your own local media outlets!
YES alumna hosted in One World AT works to combat prejudice on her university campus