Afs programs

You can also share your own culture with them. Being an AFS student is an experience of its own. Exploring new challenge and experience will be a new achievement in your life. AFS volunteers are also ready to support you, according to a standard and procedure designed by AFS to ensure your positive experience during program. AFS is committed to helping young people to go abroad regardless of their financial situation. After careful consideration, AFS made the very difficult but necessary decision to shorten our programs, and repatriate our participants wherever it is possible to do so.

We truly believe it is in the best interest of our participants to be with their families during these uncertain times. Explore your potential and pick from a choice of roles and flexible schedules. Benefit from our exceptional volunteer training program, develop your leadership skills and help others learn how to live together. Read More. It is a merit-based scholarship for high school students aged to spend one academic year in the United States living with an American host family, attending high school, acquiring leadership skills, and helping to educate Americans about their home country and culture.

Learn how AFS helps people of all ages and backgrounds develop the knowledge, skills, and understanding needed to connect to diverse people, succeed in a global economy and help make a positive impact on the world. The workshop will focus on how intercultural learning experiences and study abroad can address and reduce cultural barriers.

Participants will leave this session with easy-to-implement experiential learning activities, resources to develop global competency and strategies to promote study abroad in different settings. This public event will connect the AFS global leadership with local youth and schools for a meaningful community intercultural learning opportunity. The event will have two parts: an all-day Workshop on Sunday, 23 October and an evening Forum on Wednesday, 26 October.

Sixty experts, researchers and practitioners in the field of international youth exchanges and intercultural learning have been invited to exchange research and practical ideas on teacher training and tools to provide intercultural learning opportunities for pupils, especially in secondary schools.

Your Age. Area of Interest. Young scholars will develop the skills needed to work in and advance a low-carbon energy system, while increasing their global awareness, interest in and understanding of the need for a sustainable and equitable energy future.

The first Global You Adventure begins on June Take a look details program at the link on the left. Step out of your comfort zone, become a global citizen with AFS Whether you are in high school, at a university or jump-starting your career, AFS has the right program for you!

You can also share your own culture with them Being an AFS student is an experience of its own. Agreement and consent from parents and school. Citizen of Indonesia, proven by birth certificate. Physically and mentally fit for the program. Participate in selection stages conducted by Bina Antarbudaya. Selected candidates will be eligible for the AFS Program according to selection result.

Registration and application start from by the middle of August. After obtaining the PIN, activate it here After your PIN is active and your account is established, you may start completing the Online Registration according to the instruction.

We call this the AFSeffect! Your AFS experience starts here:. School Programs Make new friends, learn a new language, live with a global family, and become an active global citizen! YES Program This is a sponsored program to allow you to experience an international education at a U.

Asia Kakehashi This is a sponsored program to grow your global competence and become a future leader by spending time studying abroad in Japan! Special Interest Programs The special interest programs known as AFS Academies are highly focussed short-term, designed to empower you to change your world, engage in hands-on activities, and learn skills vital to becoming a global citizen of tomorrow.

AFS is well-prepared to run study abroad programs with a robust risk management and support system in place, and we are fortunate to have already laid the groundwork for transformative change well before COVID AFS programs will run in countries where health and safety conditions allow, and student visas are possible. Build global skills AFS support students with structural and facilitated intercultural learning journeys that lead to Global Competence.

Comprehensive medical insurance. AFS also offers participants and their families an optional travel benefits package, administered through a third party. Two iconic yellow AFS luggage tags. Local language assistance where required.

Professional assistance with the application process. Placement with a carefully selected volunteer host family who will provide you room, board, and guidance. Your host family will also arrange a way for you to get to and from your school or community service project each day. Placement with a host school or community service organization. Orientations prior to departure and after arrival, including room and board during multi-day orientations that occur throughout the program.

This may be anywhere between a few nights to a few weeks stay, depending on the program. Orientation materials available prior to departure and during your exchange. Arrival orientation materials in your host country.