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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.

25 students in 16 years: Minttu Auvinen’s AFS Story

In the sixteen years since her family first hosted an exchange student, Anita from Hong Kong in 2010, more than…
AFS China celebrates training nearly 2,000 educators across 800 schools

AFS China celebrates training nearly 2,000 educators across 800 schools through a successful Teacher Intercultural Capacity Building initiative In 2018…
2025 AFS Annual Report: Developing Active Global Citizens

Download the Annual Report Dear Friends of AFS, Driven by a profound sense of purpose, our vision is to ensure…

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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