Frohe Weihnachten

Liebe AFSer, Liebe Gastfamilien,

Im Namen von AFS Vorarlberg wünschen wir Euch allen frohe und besinnliche Festtage und alles Gute im neuen Jahr 2010.

Arrival Camp Sommer 2009

"Das Arrival Camp hatte heuer 127 normale Teilnehmer und zwei Geburtstagskinder! Alle Gastschüler haben sich für 4 Tage in Tulln in Niederösterreich getroffen, um einen ersten Eindruck von Österreich zu bekommen und sich so gut wie möglich auf die spannende Anfangszeit hier vorzubereiten.
25 Betreuer aus fast allen LKs haben auf Deutsch, Englisch, Thai, Kantonesisch, Französisch, Tschechisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Mandarin und mit Händen und Füßen geredet und erklärt, um dieses Wochenende für die Teilnehmer unvergesslich zu machen."

Theresa Haider, LK Salzburg

Hier noch ein paar Impressionen:

International Volunteer Day

Congratulations AFS Volunteers!

December 5, 2009

Dear AFS Volunteer,

Today is International Volunteer Day, established by the United Nations General Assembly in 1985, and a very special day for the AFS Network. Today, we stop to appreciate the miracles that are made to happen every day by the tens of thousands of AFS Volunteers like you, working in their own countries as part of a worldwide community. These miracles happen when people who may be from opposite sides of the world are helped to become a family. They happen when a young person who can see beyond his or her own borders is supported in pursuing the dream of living abroad. The miracles happen when you and people like you around the world have the patience and the love to inspire and support our AFS participants. Collectively, AFS Volunteers like yourself are a force for peace and understanding in the world. You are the people who make AFS possible and you are the reason why, today—after 63 years, we are a worldwide Network whose constituents number in the millions. You are a force whose impact should not be underestimated. So, thank you for the work you do every day for AFS and for the AFS participants in your area. I know that even though we can only express our appreciation to you, as an organization, once in a while; that your real thanks comes in knowing the results of the work and the caring that you invest in the people you interact with as an AFS Volunteer every day. Connecting people, supporting them and earning trust, and inspiring them to be and do better. That is the stuff that AFS miracles are made of, miracles made by AFS Volunteers like you, every day. With much appreciation for all that you do, Francisco "Tachi" Cazal President and CEO AFS Intercultural Programs