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Volunteers Needed

Host an AFS Exchange Student

Help build bridges of intercultural understanding by sharing your home and daily life with an exchange student. AFS is looking for volunteer host families for high school exchange students coming from more than 90 countries for the 2013-2014 school year. Meet some of the students coming in August: …

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Connecting People - Sharing Cultures

Hosting an international high school exchange student is an ideal way to open your family’s eyes to the world, promote a sense of adventure and set the course for lifelong learning. •   Share your family’s traditions and get to       know another culture •   Become more involved within your     …

AFS Fact Sheet

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Host an AFS Exchange Student

Each year, AFS Intercultural Programs welcomes more than 2,300 international high school students to the US. These are outstanding young people who were selected in their home countries to study in US high schools and are eager to experience what it's like to live in America. Sharing daily life …

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The WORLD could be waiting at YOUR front steps!

Youth for Understanding (YFU) is one of the world's largest and most respected international exchange programs! Help us welcome the world home by hosting a high school age international student for an academic school year or semester. A YFU exchange student becomes a member of your family, …

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Volunteer Information Day

Hospice of the Chesapeake will host Volunteer Information Day on Saturday, March 23, 2013,  10am -12noon at our Largo, MD office (9500 Arena Drive, Suite 250, Largo, MD 20774).  This is a great opportunity for persons who are considering volunteering with Hospice of the Chesapeake to meet our staff…

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Need help starting chapter of Teach to Learn

Teach to Learn-Maryland is looking for volunteers to help set up a chapter here. Teach to Learn aims to increase educational opportunities for the underprivileged. We run a free tutoring program and a children's literacy program. We have various volunteer positions available. Contact us ASAP!  

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AFS in Hyattsville Area is looking for supportive, local families to host exchange students

Imagine you could add another member to your family. A person who has lived in another country. A person who speaks another language. A person who sees the world in a different way than you. A person who wants to be your new son or daughter. Redefine what it means to be a family by hosting an AFS …

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Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind Seeks Readers, Visitors

Columbia Lighthouse for the Blind, a nonprofit organization serving people of all ages in the Washington metropolitan area who are blind and visually impaired, is recruiting adult volunteers to serve as Readers and Friendly Visitors.  Participants in the Readers & Friendly Visitors program are …

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SnowCare for Troops Seeks Volunteers and Military Families

SnowCare for Troops Seeks Volunteers Frequent moves and unexpected deployments are just a few of the stresses impacting the families of the nearly 1.5 million active duty men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces. Along with the stress that comes with family separation, military spouses of …

Volunteers Needed

SnowCare for Troops Seeks Volunteers and Military Families

SnowCare for Troops Seeks Volunteers Frequent moves and unexpected deployments are just a few of the stresses impacting the families of the nearly 1.5 million active duty men and women serving in the U.S. armed forces. Along with the stress that comes with family separation, military spouses of …

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