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Announcement, Global Citizenship

Young Global Citizen from Bangladesh Wins 2020 AFS Prize

Shah Chowdhury from Bangladesh with the Project Trishna won the annual AFS Prize for Young Global Citizens for empowering communities through safe water access and ensuring safe water as a basic…

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Education, Global Citizenship, Global Competence

Critical Thinking, Empathy and Responsible Collaboration Need More Focus in Education

“Global Citizenship Education is a powerful approach in education that can empower people to recover from crises and transform their communities into peaceful and sustainable societies,” says Monika Froehler in…

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Education, Global Citizenship, Global Competence

Students Should Learn Life Skills, Behaviors and Attitudes in Schools

“The curriculum must change. It’s time to position non-formal education and learning properly within the life of every school. Knowledge should still be important and academic attainment prized, but there…

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AFS Volunteer, Announcement, Global Citizenship

AFS Hackathon for Ideas Generates Solutions to Global Challenges

More than 300 people from 70 countries participated in the AFS Global Ideathon (4-6 September) to work collaboratively on innovative ideas for addressing global challenges. Envisaged as a hackathon for…

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Announcement, Education, Global Citizenship

Empowering Teachers to Develop Global Citizenship among High School Students

150 teachers and close to 4,000 high school students will participate in the new AFS Effect+ for the Classroom program delivered by AFS Intercultural Programs and its national organizations in…

Luisa Fernanda Romero Muñoz – Young Global Citizen Prize Winner
Changemaking, Global Citizenship

Young Global Citizen Expands Impact Thanks to AFS Prize

Luisa Fernanda Romero Munoz, co-founder of Get Up And Go Colombia, was awarded the first-ever 2019 AFS Prize for Young Global Citizens for advancing peacebuilding in her home country by…

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AFS Student, Global Citizenship

Global Competence Certificate for Teens Now Available Online

At a time when understanding others is more important than ever but travel remains challenging, AFS Intercultural Programs is providing a new way for teens to connect internationally while building…

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Education, Global Citizenship, Intercultural Learning

AFS Holds a Successful Ibero-American Week of Global Education

Under the theme of: Globalize, Connect, Transform, 6,000 participants from Latin America and Europe met last week to debate the present and future of education.    From June 1 to…

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Advocacy, Global Citizenship

What We’re Learning from the Black Lives Matter Movement

By the team at AFS International We are in pain. We hear the painful outcries triggered by the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, Tony McDade, João Pedro…

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