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AFS-USA Opportunities to Volunteer, Host, Donate, Study Abroad and More for 2023-24 The Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team (www.afsusa.org/misstennky/) offers many opportunities to be involved as we host and send students though out the word. AFS-USA has been doing this since 1947 very successfully. You may go to www.afsusa.org/volunteer-with-afs to register and/or Becky Heywood (area chair) afsbecky@comcast.net and 615-473-4389 for more information. Currently, the team does not know which school systems will accept AFSers this fall. If you know that your system will, please, let us know. Student mini-bios that are scheduled to need loving hosts in the fall may be seen at www.afsusa.org/host. You will be amazed at their multiplicity of interests and talents .(We do know that to host in MNPS, applications must be vetted by June 1st.) Thank you for helping us share this information and hope you will join us in promoting peace and goodwill in the world. The Miss Tennky Area Team is in need of folks who love people and international education to become registered volunteers to work with the host families and the AFSers. Go to www.afsusa.org/misstennky/ to see where you may best serve. To view all of the opportunities with AFS go to www.afsusa.org/impact. Dr. Barbara Y. Wills, NCC, LPC Miss Tennky Area AFS PR Team Chair Retired Professional Counselor MNPS AFS Global Educator to Thailand 2000 byw1010@aol.com 615-210-1552
Date Posted: Apr 29, 2023
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AFS-USA Intercultural Programs is a leading international exchange program in the world. It has been successfully hosting and sending students and teachers on exchanges since 1947 to over ninety (90) partner countries. The founding of AFS (The American Field Service), the ambulance drivers in WW I and WW II, was over 100 years ago. AFS international students are spread throughout TN, MS, KY and Alabama. Many school systems will not be accepting students this fall, but may in Spring. Check with your school system befeore applying to hosts. More host families for the future and volunteers to support those who are here now are needed by the Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team for the next school year. Many varied volunteer positions are available. The time you spend will depend on the time you have and wish to give. These are some examples: cluster chair, area chair, liaisons, interviewers, orientation organizers and workers, festival workers, school visitors, plus lunch and activity booth workers, treasurer, newsletter chair and writers, public speakers for community clubs and churches, public relations, sending chair and etc. There is online training for many of these positions. Contact Becky Heywood, volunteer coordinator and area chair at 615-473-4389 and AFSbecky@comcast.net, to discover which volunteer jobs would be perfect for you on the Miss Tennky Area AFS Team. One can register online at www.afsusa.org/volunteer-with-afs and look at the team website at http/afsusa.org/misstennky/ Christina.pettinelli@afsusa.org serves as the sending coordinator for students who wish to go as foreign exchange students to one of AFS-USA's 90 partner countries. There are summer, semester, year long and gap year program. They may be viewed at www.afsusa.org/stiudy-abroad. Many different types of scholarships are available and vary from year to year. Deadlines begin January 9th with Congress-Bundestag and FLEX. Other dates vary. Contact ksullivan@afsusa.org if you are interested in hosting an AFSer. She is the Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Support Team Development Specialist. The web site is www.afsusa.org/host where you may put in your zip code to see the mini-bios who will need a family for 2021-22. Some school syst. ems will accept students at semester, but not CMCSS. MNPS will accept second semester students. This fall CMCSS will not be accepting students in the fall. MNPS and Williamson County will accept AFSer in the fall. You should contact your school system to be sure they will be accepting AFSers before you begin a hosting application. The local web site is http://afsusa.org/misstennky/. Students who are in need of hosting come with spending money, a wealth of interests and talents and are fully medically insured. You furnish the loving home, transportation and food. Hope you will join us and share this information with others.
Date Posted: May 24, 2023
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Pinson, AL 35126
AFS-USA is the leading exchange program in the world and has been successfully been hosting and sending students and teachers on exchanges for over 75 years to over 90 partner countries.. The new roster for 2023-24 is very impressive with many countries represented. Go to www.afsusas.org/host to see their mini-bios. You may begin a hosting application here as well.. Contact Becky Heywood, volunteer and are coordinator, at AFSBecky@comcast.net or 615-473-4389 to discover which volunteer jobs would be perfect for you. Some of the tasks are interviewing, transporting, planning and holding orientations, writing articles for the newsletter, becoming a host, liaison, aunt/uncle, speaking to school classes, civic organizations and church groups, returnee follow-up, fund raising, etc. One can register online at www.afsus.org/volunteer-with-afs. Looking for a new sending coordinator to serve as the sending coordinator for students who wish to go as foreign exchange students to one of AFS-USA's 40 partner countries. There are summer, semester, year long and gap year program. They may be viewed at www.afs.org/going-abroad. Many different types of scholarships are available and vary from year to year. Costs, available type programs, eligible ages, scholarships etc., may all be found at the above web site. Contact Becky Heywood at afsbecky@afsusa.org if you are interested in hosting an AFSer for the fall and wish to see the students' mini-bios, (www.afsusa.org/host) ask questions and see full applications, plus make an application. All school systems are not accepting AFS international students this fall. Therefore, contact your school system to be sure they are accepting students this fall before making an application. AFS students scheduled to come in the fall may be seen at www.afsusa.org/host. You may see their mini-bios there. Hope you will be joining us as as a host and/or volunteer.
Date Posted: May 24, 2023
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Clarksville, TN 37043
AFS-USA is the leading exchange program in the world and has been successfully hosting and sending students and teachers on exchanges for (75years) to over ninety (90) partner countries. This year is the 111th Anniversary of the American Field Service. The members were the ambulance drivers in WWI and WWII. Members of this group formed AFS as it is today. Two were actually from Tennessee. The Miss Tennky Area AFS Leadership Team plans to place forty+ foreign exchange students in the area for the 2023-24 school year. They will be spread throughout TN, MS, KY and Alabama. Why not bring the world to your home? Volunteers and host families are needed to support the Miss Tennky Area AFS Leadership Team/ You may go on line and see their mini-bios at www.afsusa.org/host and then put in your zip code. You may begin a hosting application on this website. Contact Becky Heywood, volunteer coordinator, at 615-473-4389 and AFSBecky@comcast.net.
Date Posted: May 24, 2023
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Nashville, TN 37220
Volunteer families are most needed in the late summer for hosting AFSers that will arrive in August for the school year. and folks to servie as liaisons and uncles/aunts, plus welcome families throughout the year. Other opportunities are listed below. Volunteers in many areas are needed to work with the AFSers and families throughout the year. Some of the opportunities other than hosting are for transportation, coordinating school and returnee support, orientation and recognition involvement, temporary housing, newsletter and fund raising assistance, refreshements and assist with publicity, You may register at the local web site http://afsusa.org/misstennky/ and/or contact Becky Heywood, volunteer coordinator, at AFSbecky @comcast.net and 615-473-4389 to find your special place with the AFS family . Thanks for any support and assistance you may give to enable AFS to continue our mission of promoting international peace and goodwill. The Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team is always glad to bring the AFSers and do a program for classrooms, church and civic groups. Call Barbara Y. wills.(See below for contact info.) Dr. Barbara Y. Wills, NCC, LPC, Miss Tennky Area AFS Volunteer Leadership Team Publicity Coordinator, 12 Time AFS Host Mom, AFS Global Educator to Thailand 2000, AFS-USA Delegate to German Volunteer Conference 2006, Retired Professional Counselor Metropolitan Nashville Public Schools and Non-Voting Delegate to the First National AFS Volunteer Assembly 2000, 2233 Roanoke RD, Clarksville, TN 37043, 615-210-1552, 931-378-7258, AFSPR@misstennky.org, www.afsusa.org/volunteer-with-afs.
Date Posted: May 27, 2023
