Each year, Youth for Understanding USA (YFU) - one of the world’s oldest, largest and most respected intercultural exchange organizations - sponsors 500 American teens to study abroad, and welcomes 2000 international teenagers to the U.S. to participate in intercultural exchange. This is our last week to invite families to apply to welcome one of these carefully selected foreign exchange students for the fall semester. The benefits of hosting a YFU student are as numerous and varied as the families who embrace this life-altering experience.
Would you consider hosting or serving as a welcome family for one of these students? The deadline is August 31 to have an arrival host family and school enrollment for each student.
Meet some of our priority students here: http://yfuusa.org/media/2013priorityStudents.pdf. By opening your home and heart to a student from overseas, you and your family will gain a new global perspective, many memories, and - quite possibly - a new family member for life!
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Interested or know someone who’d make a great host family? Apply at: http://yfuusa.org/host-a-student/apply-now.php. or call 800.872.0200 to speak directly with your local field director.
