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Would you like to create a lifelong bond with a future leader from the other side of the world? Would you like to have an enriching and rewarding experience adding a young person to your day-to-day family life? Would you like to make a lasting impact on the life of a young person? Consider becoming a volunteer host family. By hosting an exchange student, you'll be a cultural ambassador for your country and help shape America's image. American Councils is looking for families and individuals to host high school international exchange students during the 2024-25 academic year on a merit scholarship funded by the U.S. State Department. Designed to support person-to-person diplomacy and foster greater cultural understanding between our countries at a time of growing tension, the YES and FLEX program will bring exchange students who have outstanding academic records, speak English, and have a strong interest in learning about U.S. culture. Students arrive with medical insurance and receive a monthly stipend for their personal needs. Families and individuals as diverse as America itself can host exchange students. We ask that you be open to new cultural perspectives while providing a comfortable bed, a quiet place to study, daily meals, support, conversation, and guidance as the student adapts to American life. It's difficult to explain the joys of hosting an exchange student in a few words, but this Kroger ad does a great job at highlighting the lifelong bonds our families make with their exchange students: https://youtu.be/pQPdl3v_3iE (note: we do not own the rights to this video or music)
Date Posted: 2024-07-09
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Harpers Ferry, WV 25425
Would you like to create a lifelong bond with a future leader from the other side of the world? Would you like to have an enriching and rewarding experience adding a young person to your day-to-day family life? Would you like to make a lasting impact on the life of a young person? Consider becoming a volunteer host family. By hosting an exchange student, you'll be a cultural ambassador for your country and help shape America's image. American Councils is looking for families and individuals to host high school international exchange students during the 2024-25 academic year on a merit scholarship funded by the U.S. State Department. Designed to support person-to-person diplomacy and foster greater cultural understanding between our countries at a time of growing tension, the YES and FLEX program will bring exchange students who have outstanding academic records, speak English, and have a strong interest in learning about U.S. culture. Students arrive with medical insurance and receive a monthly stipend for their personal needs. Families and individuals as diverse as America itself can host exchange students. We ask that you be open to new cultural perspectives while providing a comfortable bed, a quiet place to study, daily meals, support, conversation, and guidance as the student adapts to American life. It's difficult to explain the joys of hosting an exchange student in a few words, but this Kroger ad does a great job at highlighting the lifelong bonds our families make with their exchange students: https://youtu.be/pQPdl3v_3iE (note: we do not own the rights to this video or music)
Date Posted: 2024-07-03
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Virtual Opportunity
American Councils seeks US-based volunteers to evaluate scholarship applications of high school students from 29 countries. This is a unique opportunity to change a young person’s life and be part of a worldwide public diplomacy effort. Youth exchange programs empower the next generation and establish long-lasting ties between the United States and other countries, promoting mutual understanding. Over the past decades, the U.S. Congress and Department of State have created youth exchanges as an important component of U.S. public diplomacy and foreign policy: The Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program: initiated in 1992 to ensure long-lasting peace and mutual understanding between the U.S. and the countries of Eurasia and to enable young people to learn about the U.S. and Americans firsthand, and to teach Americans about their countries. Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) program: established by Congress in October 2002 in response to the events of September 11, 2001 to bring students from countries of strategic importance to the United States for an academic year to advance the U.S. foreign policy goals of promoting civil society, youth leadership development, and lasting ties between Americans and the people of participating countries. National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) program: launched in 2006 to promote critical language learning among American youth and offers U.S. teens short- and long-term scholarship programs to study Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajik), Indonesian, Russian, and Turkish in countries where these languages are spoken. FLEX Abroad and YES Abroad: offer U.S. high school students scholarships to participate in an academic year cultural exchange in a participating FLEX or YES country, the reciprocal to the FLEX and YES Programs. These programs provide high school students with the opportunity to travel to the U.S. or abroad for an academic year or summer and study and live with a host family. By volunteering to evaluate these student applications, you will help select the next generation of future leaders in these countries. Many of the over 54,000 FLEX, YES, and NSLI-Y alumni have gone on to become successful professionals in their home communities. Alumni of these programs include entrepreneurs, journalists, financial sector leaders, technology leaders, public policy makers, and leaders in their national governments. Volunteers are required to attend a 6-hour virtual training session to provide a better understanding of the programs and application process and prepare them to evaluate student applications. Just as the FLEX, YES and NSLI-Y programs are accessible to and include students with disabilities, American Councils also welcomes volunteers with all abilities. If you have any questions about accommodations for volunteer evaluators, please contact volunteer@americancouncils.org .
Date Posted: 2024-07-09
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Shepherdstown, WV 25443
Would you like to create a lifelong bond with a future leader from the other side of the world? Would you like to have an enriching and rewarding experience adding a young person to your day-to-day family life? Would you like to make a lasting impact on the life of a young person? Consider becoming a volunteer host family. By hosting an exchange student, you'll be a cultural ambassador for your country and help shape America's image. American Councils is looking for families and individuals to host high school international exchange students during the 2024-25 academic year on a merit scholarship funded by the U.S. State Department. Designed to support person-to-person diplomacy and foster greater cultural understanding between our countries at a time of growing tension, the YES and FLEX program will bring exchange students who have outstanding academic records, speak English, and have a strong interest in learning about U.S. culture. Students arrive with medical insurance and receive a monthly stipend for their personal needs. Families and individuals as diverse as America itself can host exchange students. We ask that you be open to new cultural perspectives while providing a comfortable bed, a quiet place to study, daily meals, support, conversation, and guidance as the student adapts to American life. It's difficult to explain the joys of hosting an exchange student in a few words, but this Kroger ad does a great job at highlighting the lifelong bonds our families make with their exchange students: https://youtu.be/pQPdl3v_3iE (note: we do not own the rights to this video or music)
Date Posted: 2024-07-03
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Charles Town, WV 25414
Would you like to create a lifelong bond with a future leader from the other side of the world? Would you like to have an enriching and rewarding experience adding a young person to your day-to-day family life? Would you like to make a lasting impact on the life of a young person? Consider becoming a volunteer host family. By hosting an exchange student, you'll be a cultural ambassador for your country and help shape America's image. American Councils is looking for families and individuals to host high school international exchange students during the 2024-25 academic year on a merit scholarship funded by the U.S. State Department. Designed to support person-to-person diplomacy and foster greater cultural understanding between our countries at a time of growing tension, the YES and FLEX program will bring exchange students who have outstanding academic records, speak English, and have a strong interest in learning about U.S. culture. Students arrive with medical insurance and receive a monthly stipend for their personal needs. Families and individuals as diverse as America itself can host exchange students. We ask that you be open to new cultural perspectives while providing a comfortable bed, a quiet place to study, daily meals, support, conversation, and guidance as the student adapts to American life. It's difficult to explain the joys of hosting an exchange student in a few words, but this Kroger ad does a great job at highlighting the lifelong bonds our families make with their exchange students: https://youtu.be/pQPdl3v_3iE (note: we do not own the rights to this video or music)
Date Posted: 2024-07-03