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AFS and Africa: Engaging with Youth on the Fastest-Growing Continent

As AFS prepares for the 50th anniversary of its activities in Ghana, we find ourselves reflecting on our longstanding ties to Africa. With 54 countries, 2,000 languages, and 1.216 billion…

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Education, Global Citizenship, Intercultural Learning

Global citizenship education forum in Ghana to explore key skills for employability

AFS Intercultural Programs and the British Council are proud to announce the Global Citizenship Education: Essential for Employability and the 21st Century Workforce Forum which will take place in Accra,…

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First impressions from my study abroad experience: awesome and weird in so many peculiar ways

This post was written by Ambani Makuya, an AFS student from South Africa on exchange in the Philippines. Ambani is one of the young deserving students who received the 2017 Investing…

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Making memories with great friends

To my best understanding, friendship is a relationship of mutual affection between two people. A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you. I met a…

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Becoming friends with people from around the world

When I first arrived, before school started, I didn’t have any friends and I couldn’t speak Italian. However, when school started I met my classmates and we became friends. At…

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