AFS exchange programs draw people from around the world who want to get to know people from other countries. Participants live with a host family while working within a community, gaining a fresh perspective on a foreign culture. By experiencing new cultures as outsiders, AFS Participants also gain a deeper understanding of themselves and their home cultures.

All AFS programs offer participants the opportunity to build meaningful connections with everyone they meet during their experiences abroad, as well as in their home countries and within the AFS global community. These bonds start to form throughout the application and orientation process, when participants meet each other for the first time. During the experience abroad, early friendships are strengthened and new friends are made at orientations and events organized by AFS in the host country. Participants will also meet countless people in the local community through their host families, schools, workplaces and through extracurricular activities.

Programs:

Community Service Program: The program provides you with the opportunity to work in a community organization, with accommodations either in a host family or at the work site. You will also have the opportunity to participate in local activities so that you can learn more about the cultural and socio-economic realities of your host country. Programs last 3, 5 or 11 months.

Internships: AFS gives you the opportunity to integrate career related experience into an undergraduate education by participating in planned, supervised community work abroad. Please contact us for more details

Summer Program: Are you looking for an enjoyable and rewarding way of spending your summer? With its wide choice of programs and destinations, AFS Interculture Canada surely has a program for you!

FLEX Program: Similar to the Community Service Program but offers greater flexibility. It lasts for as long as you want (minimum 4 weeks according to your destination, and allows you to travel on your own after your program is completed.

To go abroad:

Print and sign the preliminary below. Send it with the payment of the opening fees of 75$ to our office at the following address:

AFS Interculture Canada
1425 René-Lévesque Blvd. West, suite 1100
Montreal, Quebec, H3G 1T7

We will contact you as soon as we receive it. You will then have the choice to finish your application online or on paper.

If you need any information, please contact Stephanie Girouard at 1 800 361-7248 ext 227 or by email: stephanie.girouard@afs.org.

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