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AFS Brochures
Click on the thumbnail above to download a free Student Exchange Guide (2MB)
Click on the thumbnail above to download a free Community Service Programme brochure (717k)
AFS News
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2009 Gallipoli Youth Award Exchange a success!
2009 Award recipients Spencer McGarry from Mt Albert Grammar in Auckland and Gizem Gencel from Milli Piango Anadolu Lisesi School in Canakkale, Tur…
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Top honors for AFS returnee
Brittany Challis, a recipient of a Ministry of Education language Immersion Award to Belgium, has also won a New Zealand Qualification Authority t…
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AFS USA Returnees Function
AFS NZ in conjunction with the US Ambassador, Bill McCormick, hosted a reconnection function on November 2 in Wellington. The function, at Ambass…
What is AFS?
An AFS experience is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity that will greatly assist your development as a young adult and will provide you with skills that will benefit you for the rest of your life.
Other benefits of an AFS student exchange include:
1. Gaining a future edge in the job market
2. Discovering the real you
3. Overseas travel
4. Learning a new language
5. Becoming an insider in another culture
6. Becoming part of a new family
7. Making overseas friends and networks for life
8. Being part of something worthwhile
9. Investing wisely in your future
On this website you can find out information about the high school, community service, educator programmes we offer. You can also find out about how to become a host family to one of our amazing students or how to get involved as a volunteer.