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The world needs more Active Global Citizens: AFS helps create them.

Our vision at AFS is to ensure a more peaceful, just, equitable and sustainable future. To ensure such a future, the world needs more Active Global Citizens: people whose informed, compassionate, and ethical compass drives them to lead lives and make decisions that contribute to a better world.

Through our Programs, Education initiatives, Volunteerism and Advocacy efforts, AFS helps create Active Global Citizens.

The Untold Stories of WWI AFS Drivers with UPenn Lecturer Lisa Ann Britton

Before AFS was a global exchange organization, it was a volunteer ambulance corps on the front lines of World War…
AFS Intercultural Programs and Soliya Join Forces to Strengthen and Expand Global Intercultural Education

Two leading international organizations, AFS Intercultural Programs and Soliya, today announced that Soliya is now a non-profit subsidiary of AFS,…
The Heart of AFS: Volunteers Have the Power to Build a Better World

Closing Remarks of Ernesto ReyMoreno, Chair of the AFS International Board of Trustees, at the AFS Chapter Leadership Summit in…

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Help us educate future leaders

“Broadening the perspectives of our next generation of leaders and empowering them to communicate, negotiate and collaborate across differences is mission critical if we want to combat the rising tide of intolerance we see everywhere.”

— DANIEL OBST, PRESIDENT AND CEO OF AFS INTERCULTURAL PROGRAMS