”Through each participant, volunteer, returnee, host family or host school…. We attempt to change the world one step at a time, one person at a time. For only through this power of one can we hope to achieve our aim.”
AFS Interculture South Africa, formed in 1958, is a volunteer, non-profit organization which promotes and facilitates intercultural learning and awareness through exchange programs and other intercultural activities to foster peaceful co-existence.
Each year AFS Interculture South Africa makes it possible for South Africans to welcome in their homes and experience the friendship of hundreds of participants from about 40 countries around the world. The same intercultural learning opportunities are provided to tens of South African citizens to live in a foreign country and learn a new culture, a new language, in short, you learn “a new way of seeing the world”.
The number of participants on programs has increased significantly over the past few years. In 1995 AFS Interculture South Africa facilitated high school exchanges for 35 young people. Today more than 200 people a year – including high school students, young adults, and teachers – participate in AFS Interculture South Africa programs.
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“AFS is fun, mainly because you meet so many other people from different countries and you make friends for life”
Anne Unhammer, Norway, exchange student in South Africa in 1999
