indonesian_open FW: [asia-ednet] Bring Asia home!

[Harsojo, Ida]

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Bring Asia home! 

Cheaper, less effort, and just as rewarding as travelling, being an AFS
host family allows you to experience Asia from the comfort of your home.
Right now AFS is seeking volunteer host families for exchange students
from China, Hong Kong, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and Indonesia. These
students will be arriving in August and early 2008, now it's your chance
to share the Australian way of life with one of these enthusiastic
students! 

AFS is one of the world's largest not-for-profit volunteer organisations
for the promotion of intercultural understanding and peace. Through
hosting an AFS student, you can grow to appreciate and understand a
foreign culture by welcoming an exchange student into your home. The
size or type of your family is always suitable: You can have a large
family, be a single parent, have young or grown up kids. Anyone can
become a 'host ' just so long as they are open-minded, patient and
understanding. In providing a supportive and caring home to overseas
students, host families create lifelong friendships that are just
unforgettable. Given the world's current situation and turmoil, hosting
is one way in creating much needed harmony for a better world and let
children learn about cultural differences at a young age.   

AFS provides both the students and families with 24 hour support during
the exchange, which can last anywhere from four weeks to a year,
depending on how long you are willing to host. The organisation covers
all medical and most school admission costs. As a not-for-profit
organisation, AFS lives by the work of their volunteers, and therefore
do not pay families for hosting. Rather, host families are rewarded by
the bright, intelligent and unique students, who will share their
culture with you, participate in your household, and become one of your
own. Every student arriving in Australia is carefully selected by the
AFS local organisation. 



"We have gained such an insight to life in communities that are vastly
different to ours and by having two students from two countries [Japan
and Thailand], they have also learned much about each others' countries
and about Australia. We have spent many evenings sitting around the
dinner table comparing notes on customs and traditions and language
issues. It's much more educational than watching TV," says Jacoba Page
who recently hosted two AFS exchange students. 

If you are interested in living the life changing experience of being a
host family or assisting AFS in promoting these opportunities, please
contact the AFS hosting manager, Lana Falzon, on 1800 023 982 or email
lana.falzon at afs.org. For more information about AFS Intercultural
Programs and its 60 years history, visit www.afs.org.au. 

Salam,

Ida Harsojo

 

A/Indonesian Consultant

Curriculum K - 12 Directorate

3a Smalls Rd. Ryde 2112

 

Ph: 9889 7640

Fax : 9886 7160

Email : ida.harsojo at det.nsw.edu.au

 

 

 

 

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