AFS Intercultural Programs organizes public education events worldwide to make a powerful and transformative impact, foster intercultural learning and bring diverse communities together. For the fifth year in a row,…
We gained a lot by hosting Davis for a year, this experience helped us understand that each culture is different, and that no culture is better or worse than any…
On the evening of September 23, 1916, AFS volunteer ambulance driver Roswell Sanders took Edward J. Kelley, a newly-arrived volunteer, out on the road near Verdun, France. Verdun was the…
Richard Nelville Hall volunteered for AFS immediately after graduating from Dartmouth College in 1915. In a letter to his parents, he stated that “the greatest inducement to going over [to…
During World War I, many AFS ambulance drivers went to the May-en-Multien training camp, which was created to train incoming volunteers to handle and maneuver the ambulances (including dodging obstacles),…
Joshua Gabriel Baker Campbell enlisted with the transportation units at the American Ambulance Hospital in 1914, with a group that would later be renamed Section Sanitaire Etats-Unis (SSU) 1 of…