What the World Needs Now is ..You!

Have you considered hosting an international teenager for a semester or a year in your home? The commitment is to offer room and board and the guidance you would want your child to receive from a host family. All types of families make good hosts, i.e. single parents, couples with no children or grown children, or families with young children or teenagers. 30 families in the Greater Cleveland Area hosted AFS students last year. Hosting a student from another country brought these families closer together, helped develop friendships-sometimes quite strong-between U.S. and hosted students' families, and showed these American families so much about the world!

All AFS students have some English language proficiency and bring their own spending money and medical coverage. They all receive orientations before arriving and several orientations during their AFS experience to help them adjust to our culture and lifestyle, and take advantage of this incredible learning opportunity. We strongly recommend hosting through AFS because of their 50 years of experience in international exchange and because of the great support from the AFS volunteers right here in our community.

There are some wonderful students arriving the second week of August from Europe, Asia, Scandinavia and South America who are waiting to hear about the American family who will host them. Contact Krista to learn more about hosting an AFS student.