AFS Award Helps Young Changemakers Advance Their Work
The AFS Award for Young Global Citizens is an annual recognition of young people for their commitment to improving the global community and their actions contributing to a more just,…
Author: Milena Miladinovic
Daring to Reshape the World at the AFS Youth Assembly
It’s a wrap on the 2022 AFS Youth Assembly! Hundreds of dynamic young global citizens from 76 countries gathered in New York City from August 12-14, 2022 aspiring to Reshape…
AFS rings the Opening Bell at the Nasdaq Exchange
Representatives of AFS Intercultural Programs rang the Opening Bell at the Nasdaq Exchange in New York City. This was a great opportunity to take a stand for intercultural exchanges and…
AFS Celebrates the 75th Anniversary of High School Exchanges
75 years ago, the first students set off on the new AFS high school exchange programs. Through the vision of our founders, AFS was transformed from a humanitarian ambulance service…
How Intercultural Exchange Creates Global Citizens: The Story of an AFS Alumna
Amanda Magnani is a multimedia journalist, student and life-long AFSer. Her work focuses on topics like migrations and refugees, as well as climate justice and how climate change affects people. …
Global Meetup for 1,000+ AFS Exchange Students
1,200 future AFS exchange students joined the AFS Global Student MeetUp, a virtual preparation for their high school study abroad programs. Participants connected with one another across countries, interacted with…
Reconnected and Re-energized in 2022: AFS Global Leadership Gathers for Annual Network Meeting
Close to 200 representatives of 64 AFS Network Organizations and Global Affiliates gathered at the 2022 AFS Network Meeting in Athens, Greece from May 6 to May 8. After two…
Fontys University: The First in Europe to Surpass 500 Students Enrolled in Global Up
“The Global Up Abroad program fit perfectly with what we were looking for our outgoing exchange students,” says Lars Kleinikel, Coordinator Intercultural Learning and Teaching at the Fontys University of…
Active Global Citizenship and SDGs in Focus of the ECOSOC Youth Forum Side Event
On April 18, 2022, the UN Department of Global Communications (DGC) and AFS Intercultural Programs partnered for a side event at the 2022 ECOSOC Youth Forum. The interactive workshop titled,…