You gain so much from hosting!

“To all potential host families, just do it. You don’t need a fantastic house or lots of material things. The main thing is to have a caring heart.”

AFS host mother to Jumjim from Thailand and Franzi from Switzerland

If you love to learn, hosting is an amazing opportunity

“You learn about yourselves: the way you use your language, your sense of humour, your idiosyncrasies. You learn about differences, you learn about similarities, you learn about your capacity for love.”

AFS host mother to Kjersti from Norway

We now have a son in Argentina whom we love as our own

“We have a family whom we’ve never met but exchange good tidings with over the phone, we have gained a cultural experience and understanding we never knew, and we have had a crash course in another language!”

AFS host father to Juan from Argentina