Thursday, August 6, 2015

Youth For Understanding Seeking Host Families

Experience the world without leaving your home: Southwest families are needed to host exchange students!


Youth For Understanding (YFU) and Southwest HS are excited to enroll foreign exchange students next school year. 

You can become a host family for a student arriving this month! Host families provide a bed, meals, a way to get to school, plus encouragement, love and limits.  The students pay for their other expenses and become a true family member sharing in the family’s real life, fun and responsibilities. 

All different kinds of families host successfully: large and small, single parents and empty nesters, big or little kids, all ethnicities and economic levels. There is strong support for students and families during the year. 

One student arriving to Minnesota is Reside from Turkey. Reside enjoys art and reading and she is part of school government back home. She is a YES Scholarship winner, so she has proven herself as a leader and very motivated individual. 

Will your family open your heart to Reside or another student? Now is the time to apply as the students arrive soon. 

To learn more about hosting or volunteering, contact Anna Peters at 651-646-8173 or apeters@yfu.org. Learn why YFU, a non-profit that began over 60 years ago, is different at www.yfu-usa.org.

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