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CONNECTINGLIVES,SHARINGCULTURESA N N U A L R E P O R T 2 0 0 8

ABOUT AFSAFS began as the American Field Service in

World Wars I and II, when nearly 5,000 young

men volunteered as ambulance drivers. In

WWI they served in France and the Balkans

and in WWII they served in Europe, the Middle

East, North Africa, India and Burma. In 1919,

AFS Fellowships for French Universities were

established and a total of 222 fellowships were

awarded between 1919 and 1952. After WWII,

the drivers, under the leadership of Stephen

Galatti, organized the first AFS secondary

student exchanges in 1947 to build international

understanding and peace through the contact

of ordinary citizens.

AFS STATEMENT OF PURPOSE

AFS is an international, voluntary, non-

governmental, nonprofit organization that

provides intercultural learning opportunities to

help people develop the knowledge, skills and

understanding needed to create a more just

and peaceful world.

THE CORE VALUES AND ATTRIBUTES OF AFS

AFS enables people to act as responsible

global citizens working for peace and

understanding in a diverse world. It

acknowledges that peace is a dynamic concept

threatened by injustice, inequity and intolerance.

AFS seeks to affirm faith in the dignity

and worth of every human being and of all

nations and cultures. It encourages respect

for human rights and fundamental freedoms

without distinction as to race, gender,

language, religion or social status.

AFS activities are based on our core values

of dignity, respect for differences, harmony,

sensitivity and tolerance.

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MESSAGE FROM THE CHAIRAND THE PRESIDENT

This past year was a year of unprecedented economic challenges for the world. The difficult

financial climate forced many of us to make choices about how we invested our available

monetary resources, both as individuals and as nonprofit organizations.

The AFS Network has been working hard at becoming more strategically poised and receptive

to opportunities in an intensely competitive landscape. Rapid change, fluctuating market

conditions and an unstable political global environment underscore the importance of

intercultural understanding as an antidote to many of the world’s ills. AFS must continue to be

creative in the face of these global challenges. Our Partner Network has risen to the challenge

in the past year, but more collective action will be needed as we work to implement our

2020 Vision statement.

In this year’s annual report, we present an AFS that speaks with one voice through a respected

and well-articulated AFS Global Brand. We share a strong and defined vision for the second

decade of the twenty-first century, a vision that unites and motivates our Network. Ours is an

AFS that moves forward united in its conviction to make its mission a reality through the service

of committed volunteers, staff, host families, schools and participants. Helping to create a more

just and peaceful world through intercultural understanding is an undertaking that all of us at

AFS approach with an enthusiasm and passion that are renewed daily. We approach this effort

knowing that what we do has a multiplier effect that touches hundreds of thousands of people

every year, helping to tear down barriers of misunderstanding and fear.

AFS continues to work in earnest with others to further its goals and mission. This past year we

initiated a Call to Action for a collective effort to extend intercultural dialogue and participation in

student exchanges in all parts of the globe.

Research on intercultural educational exchange programs has shown that the exchanges that

AFS provides allow young people to gain first-hand knowledge and practical experience about

other cultures. Intercultural exchanges stimulate self-awareness and critical reflection about

identity and lead to the acquisition of lifelong skills in intercultural dialogue and to a positive

attitude towards the diversity of the world’s cultures.

The benefits of an exchange experience are very significant, but the fact remains that only

a small minority of the world’s young people are able to participate in such programs. AFS

has committed itself to call for policies and practices that will allow far more young people to

participate in full immersion intercultural programs abroad at the secondary school level. We

will seek to work more actively with governments, other nonprofit organizations, international

agencies and individuals to make educational exchange programs more widely accessible to a larger

public and to spread the benefits of these programs in a more reciprocal and inclusive manner.

In 2008, AFS sent nearly 13,000 young participants abroad on exchange programs. Our AFS

volunteers, 41,711 strong (4,934 more volunteers than in 2007), helped provide the high-quality

support to our thousands of participants that has become the hallmark of AFS programs.

We know, however, that much remains to be done. As we begin our work in 2009, we ask you to

join us in connecting lives and sharing cultures. (Please follow this link, www.afs.org, to find out

how you can get involved.)

J. Brian Atwood Francisco “Tachi” Cazal

Chair, Board of Trustees President and CEO

FRANCISCO “TACHI” CAZALPresident and CEO

J. BRIAN ATWOODChair, Board of Trustees

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ONE VISIONThe AFS Network is guided by a cohesive

vision for the year 2020 that emphasizes

quality and inclusiveness and defines

strategic goals that unite AFS Partners in a

common purpose, while inspiring the work they

do around the globe.

The AFS Vision 2020 is a road map, a

dynamic course of action designed to

support the AFS Network in achieving

initiatives that will continue to make AFS

and its programs as relevant and essential

in the years to come as they are today. The

AFS Vision 2020 promotes intercultural

understanding and the creation of

interconnected global communities.

With AFS Partners working together and

pooling their resources, the AFS Network

aims to introduce the benefits of intercultural

education programs to more countries. AFS

seeks to increase investment in its most

valued resource, its volunteers, and give

them the skills and tools needed to allow

them to continue to provide the highest level

of support to all of our constituents.

AFS strives to expand both the number

of young people who participate in our

programs and the number of participants

who receive financial support to do so.

These goals are derived from the AFS Vision

2020. In the following section we provide

examples of how these goals are being

transformed into reality by forging innovative

alliances with outside organizations and

using the accumulated knowledge of an

AFS Network with more than sixty years

of experience as a provider of intercultural

exchange programs.

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We pursue our mission by providing quality intercultural learning

opportunities for a growing number of young people, families, other

stakeholders and wider audiences, thus developing an inclusive community

of global citizens determined to build bridges between cultures.

Real-life experiential learning, supported by structured reflection, is the

core of our programs. We endeavor to link our intercultural learning

opportunities to the defining global issues facing humanity. We reach out

to past, current and future participants, volunteers and other stakeholders

using the media and technology they use.

Volunteers and volunteerism are who we are. Our organization brings

about changes in lives through and for our global community of volunteers.

We are recognized as an educational organization by schools and the

appropriate authorities. We work to create a regulatory environment that

supports our programs.

As a learning organization, we welcome change and critical thinking. We

are innovative and entrepreneurial in advancing the strategic directions,

working together with others whenever appropriate.

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One of the goals of the AFS Vision

2020 is for AFS Partners in the Network

to be recognized as educational

organizations by schools, ministries

of education and the appropriate

authorities in their countries.

AFS Intercultura in Italy has been in

the vanguard of this initiative for many

years. In 1978, AFS Intercultura began

a systematic approach to the Italian

school system to promote the idea of

intercultural education by providing

workshops to secondary school

teachers about international student

exchanges within the framework of

school curricula. In 1989, the National

Association of School Headteachers

in Italy offered its support to AFS

Intercultura and acknowledged it as the

premier student exchange organization

in the country.

In 1991, AFS Intercultura started

working with the Ministry of Education

to assess the AFS exchange programs

in Italy and to allow the Ministry to

advise AFS Intercultura on how to

improve its relationships with schools

and to suggest actions that would

facilitate educational exchanges in Italy.

In the coming years, AFS Intercultura

will promote intercultural learning in

secondary schools by working with the

Ministry of Education to continue to

provide materials related to educational

exchanges in secondary schools, to

make available intercultural learning

units and international exchange units

to schools and teachers and to open

a Web site with the support of the

Ministry of Education, dedicated to

school internationalization and student

mobility.

The AFS Vision 2020 reiterates AFS’s

commitment to the development of its

volunteers. AFS volunteers represent the

organization at the most crucial level, the

local level at which we deliver services

and support to participants, host families,

natural families and schools.

AFS Argentina’s work with its volunteers

epitomizes the goal of the AFS Vision

2020 to “bring about changes in lives

through and for our global community of

volunteers.”

Using programs such as volunteer

e-learning training modules, AFS

Argentina is able to achieve widespread

dissemination of best practices in

volunteer training. This has resulted in

savings of staff time and provided a

cost-effective alternative to traveling

to distant chapters to provide these

important trainings.

AFS Argentina has made development of

its volunteer force a priority by instituting

practices such as:

• Staffing volunteer development in the

national office with personnel charged

with volunteer training and support.

• Creating volunteer training groups to

help staff develop content for training

workshops and to lead trainings in the

Southern Cone region.

• Designing targeted trainings to address

specific areas in which chapters may be

experiencing difficulties.

• Organizing annual volunteer assemblies

dealing with issues that are of current

importance to the volunteers. The

assemblies allow volunteer leaders

to discuss and better understand

organizational issues. The themes

discussed in the assemblies are aligned

with strategic plans and include subjects

such as organizational culture, leadership

and effectively coping with change.

ITALY

ARGENTINA

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One of the strategic goals associated

with the AFS Vision for the year 2020

is to be present in 100 countries

with an early emphasis on Africa.

In 2008, AFS South Africa led the

initiative to expand our presence on

the continent by reaching out to its

neighbor, Mozambique, through a

collaboration with AFS USA, AFS

Portugal, AFS International, the Lurdes

Mutola Foundation and the Youth

Exchange and Study Program (YES).

YES is an innovative high school

exchange program funded by the

U.S. Department of State’s Bureau

of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

This public diplomacy initiative builds

bridges of international understanding,

especially between Americans and

people in countries with significant

Muslim populations. As a result of this

collaboration, two young Mozambicans

from Nampula and three from Maputo

will be leaving on an AFS one-year

exchange program to the United States

in 2009. The grant for the second YES

class of 2010–2011 for 10 Mozambicans

has recently been approved.

EFIL, the European Federation for

Intercultural Learning, is the umbrella

organization of 22 AFS organizations

in Europe. In 2008, EFIL played a

role beyond expectations in keeping

intercultural exchanges at the forefront

of the region’s educational agenda.

EFIL’s initiatives greatly advanced the

goals of the AFS Vision 2020.

Among EFIL’s many accomplishments

in this regard in 2008 were:

The Intercultural Dialogue Day was

held on September 26. More than 300

activities took place all over Europe. On

that day, AFS volunteers in 18 countries

set up simultaneous activities to discuss

and involve the public in the importance

of intercultural dialogue.

An International Educational Conference

was held in Berlin in October of 2008

under the patronage of Ján Figel’,

member of the European Commission

responsible for Education, Training,

Culture and Youth. The conference

attracted more than 270 participants

and speakers in the field of international

youth exchange.

The Volunteer Summit held in Vigy,

France, was a highlight of the numerous

training programs that EFIL organized

in 2008. Close to 200 volunteers shared

experiences dealing with all aspects of

intercultural learning at the summit.

MOZAMBIQUE

KENYA

EFIL

A grant from the Youth Exchange and

Study Program (YES) allowed AFS

USA to start intercultural exchange

programs in Kenya in 2008. Working

together on this initative were AFS

Network Partners from the United

States, Egypt and Turkey, together

with the consulting team from AFS

International. On the ground in Kenya,

volunteer AFS Returnees from the

YES Program in Egypt and Kenya, as

well as 50 Kenyan volunteers from

the Organization for Intercultural

Education (a Kenya-based educational

organization that was created as

a result of this initiative) and AFS

Network staff shared their knowledge

and passion for the YES Program

to start AFS exchanges in Kenya. In

2008, nine young Kenyans traveled to

the United States on a YES Program.

Plans are underway for 20 additional

Kenyan youth to participate in an

exchange program in 2009 and 25 in

2010.

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ONE VOICEEvery year more than 100,000 AFS

students, volunteers, Returnees, hosting

and sending families, schools, AFS Partner

staff and supporters in more than 80

countries and territories join what they call

“the experience of a lifetime.” We call it AFS

Intercultural Programs.

In 2007, we surveyed these AFS

stakeholders and we asked them, “are we

doing a good job?” The response from the

83 percent of survey respondents was “Yes!”

But how does AFS ensure that we continue

to be supportive, trustworthy and inspiring

all around the world? How do we continue

to provide the best possible personal growth

experiences? How do we speak with one

voice and have an AFS that is recognized

globally for its unique brand of intercultural

educational exchange programs?

To answer this question, Partner

representatives, board members and

volunteers from AFS organizations around

the world gathered in early March of 2008

with AFS Intercultural Programs staff and

branding experts at the AFS Global Branding

Seminar held in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

Focusing on what was essential about AFS,

their time together was used to develop a

draft statement of the AFS Global Brand

Platform reflecting AFS’s promise to its

stakeholders, naming the recognizable

attributes of the AFS brand, and pinpointing

the location of AFS within the competitive

landscape.

The AFS Global Branding Seminar was

both an opportunity for participants to be

educated about global branding, and an

opportunity for AFS leaders to discuss their

perceptions and experiences with branding

experts from around the world in a facilitated

exploration. The AFS Brand Platform was the

major output of these discussions.

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BRAND PROMISE

AFS intercultural exchange and learning programs provide people

with personal growth experiences that will continue for their lifetimes.

Through the support of a trusted network of families, educators,

volunteers, staff and students, AFS helps to build a global community

based on intercultural connections that positively affect the world.

BRAND POSITIONING

Intercultural learning experiences supported by local volunteers that

change people’s lives and connect them to a worldwide community.

BRAND ATTRIBUTES

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ONE AFSAFS is as diverse as its hundreds of

thousands of Returnees from programs

abroad, as passionate about intercultural

education programs as its tens of thousands

of active volunteers and as enthusiastic as its

nearly 13,000 new participants who go on an

AFS program every year.

AFS is as responsive and supportive as its

thousands of host families, who open their

homes to our participants, and as resolute

in the belief in the transformative power of

intercultural education as the thousands

of parents who trust AFS to send their

daughters and sons on exchange programs

abroad.

AFS has a presence in more than 50 AFS

Partners countries around the world, and

conducts intercultural education exchanges

among 80 countries that have their own

distinct cultures. AFS represents a unique

community that finds its strength in diversity

and its inspiration in its mission to provide

intercultural learning opportunities to help

people develop the knowledge, skills and

understanding to create a more just and

peaceful world.

AFS is united by the spirit of volunteerism

that is the basis of our organization; a spirit

that was kindled by the AFS ambulance

drivers during the two World Wars of the

twentieth century and that today sustains

our work to create mutual understanding

through intercultural education.

We share a common culture that transcends

borders and that forges familial bonds that

last for a lifetime. Our programs connect an

AFS worldwide family made up of hundreds

of thousands of individuals who are ready

to pursue lifelong learning experiences and

to meet the challenges of an ever-changing

world that is being transformed by both the

stresses and rewards of globalization.

AFS is inspired by its passion for providing

all our participants, whether they are host or

natural families, volunteers or teachers and

their school communities, with a supportive,

reliable and caring environment in which

learning and discovery can flourish.

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Become an AFS volunteer

or host an AFS participant.

Open your school doors to the world to welcome AFS exchange students and the wealth of intercultural learning experiences that they bring with them to your community.

Support the work of AFS today by helping us fund more programs and offer this unique experience to more young

women and men around the world.

Begin the journey by finding AFS in your country.

www.afs.org/volunteer

www.afs.org/hosting

www.afs.org/schools

www.afs.org/donation

www.afs.org

CONNECTING LIVES,SHARING CULTURES

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Frances AdamsonHigh Commissioner of Australia to the United Kingdom

Hamidon Ali Ambassador of Malaysia to the United Nations

Emilia Alvarez NavarroAmbassador of Costa Rica to Canada

Jorge ArgüelloAmbassador of Argentina to the United Nations

Ravinatha P. AryasinhaAmbassador of Sri Lanka to Belgium, Luxembourg & the European Union

Beatrice AskMinister of Justice, Sweden

Hatem AttalahPermanent Representative of Tunisia to UN-HABITAT, Kenya; Former Ambassador of Tunisia to Ethiopia

Joe Baidoe-AnsahMinister of Trade, Industry and Presidential Special Initiative, Ghana

John E. BealeAmbassador of Barbados to the United States

Jennifer L. BrushDeputy Ambassador of the United States to Serbia

Cholchineepan ChiranondAmbassador of Thailand to Denmark

Poul Skytte Christoffersen Head of Cabinet of EU Commissioner Mariann Fischer Boel

Hans DahlgrenAmbassador of Sweden to the United Nations in Geneva

Dámaso de Lario-RamírezAmbassador of Spain to Venezuela

Fernando de Mello Barreto FilhoAmbassador of Brazil to Australia

Anne E. DerseAmbassador of the United States to Azerbaijan

Jose Vicente de Sá PimentelAmbassador of Brazil to South Africa

Jessie DuarteAmbassador, Chief Director for Multilateral Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, South Africa

Jan EliassonFormer UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy for Darfur; Former Foreign Minister of Sweden Shigeru EndoAmbassador of Japan to Tunisia

Berit EngeMinister Counsellor, Permanent Mission of Norway to the United Nations

Frederico Duque Estrada MeyerAmbassador of Brazil to Kazakhstan

Fabio FabbriAmbassador of Italy to the Ukraine

Guy Féaux de la CroixDeputy Ambassador of Germany to Greece

Denis FeldmeyerAmbassador of Switzerland to Norway and Iceland

Ricardo Fiegelist SchmidtAmbassador of Chile to Syria

Volker FinkFormer Ambassador of Germany to Costa Rica

César GaviriaChief, Colombian Liberal Party; Former President of Colombia

Michael GeierAmbassador of Germany to Bulgaria

Guillermo GonzálezAmbassador, Member of International Civil Service Commission at the United Nations, Argentina

José Alfredo de Graça Lima Ambassador, Consul General of Brazil in New York

Yoshiaki HaradaSenior Vice Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan

Khaled Abdel Rahman HassanCounsellor, Embassy of Egypt in Kuwait

Nils HaugstveitAmbassador of Norway to Argentina

Hannu HimanenAmbassador and Permanent Representative of Finland to the United Nations in Geneva

Matei Ion HoffmannAmbassador of Germany to Algeria

Matthias HöpfnerAmbassador of Germany to Canada

Kuniko InoguchiMember of the House of Representatives, Japan

Tetsuo ItoFormer Ambassador of Japan to Kazakhstan

Wolfgang IschingerGlobal Head of Government Relations, Allianz SE, Germany; Former Ambassador of Germany to the United Kingdom

Eric G. JohnAmbassador of the United States to Thailand

Toshio KaitaniConsul General of Japan in Khabarovsk, Russia

Yoriko KawaguchiMember of the House of Councillors, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Japan

Zalmay KhalilzadFormer Ambassador of the United States to the United Nations; Former Ambassador of the United States to Iraq

Vimon KidchobAmbassador of Thailand to Chile

Shinichi KitajimaAmbassador of Japan to the United Nations in Geneva

Hans-Ulrich KloseDeputy Chairman, Foreign Relations Committee of the German Bundestag

Hiroyasu KobayashiConsul General of Japan in Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Yuji KumamaruConsul General of Japan in Shanghai, China

Maija LähteenmäkiAmbassador of Finland to Spain and Andorra

Hans Fredrik LehneAmbassador, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Norway

José Angel López JorrinAmbassador of Spain to Slovakia

Gunnar LundAmbassador of Sweden to France

Ragne Birte LundAmbassador, Global Initiatives on Child Rights and Protection, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Norway

Jose Antônio Marcondes de CarvalhoAmbassador of Brazil to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Agencies, Rome

Mr. Eddy M. Martínez Minister of the Center for Export and Investment of the Dominican Republic (CEI-RD)

Gregorio Martínez GarridoDirector of the Cabinet of Ministry of Interior, Spain

Gabriele Matzner-Holzer Ambassador of Austria to the United Kingdom

Trees Merckx-Van GoeyJudge, Constitutional Court of Belgium; Former Member of the Flemish Parliament

Billie Antoinette MillerMember of the Barbados Labor Party; Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade of Barbados

Kenjiro MonjiDirector-General, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Japan; Former Ambassador of Japan to Iraq

Sergio MontiConsul General of Italy to Canada, Montreal, Quebec

Tadashi NagaiAmbassador of Japan to Serbia and Montenegro

James A. NaichAmbassador, Deputy Chief of Mission of Micronesia to the United States

Shigeru NakamuraAmbassador of Japan to Saudi Arabia

José Daniel NastaHonorary Consul General of Jordan to Asunción, Paraguay

Ng Ser MiangAmbassador of Singapore to Norway and Hungary

Seiichiro NoboruExecutive Vice President of the Japan National Tourist Organization; Former Ambassador of Japan to the OECD

Roberto Ochoa MadridAmbassador of Honduras to Italy and Hungary

Esther S. MalamudMinister of Cultural Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina

Nick MinchinMember of the Senate and Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Australia

Jessada NanthachaipornFirst Secretary, Royal Thai Embassy, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Paa Kwesi NduomFormer Candidate for Ghana’s presidency and Minister for Public Sector Reform, Economic Planning and Energy

Masamitsu OkiAmbassador of Japan to Azerbaijan and Georgia

Christian OldenburgAmbassador of Denmark to the Council of Europe

AFS RETURNEES, AMBASSADORS ANDGOVERNMENT DIGNITARIES Men and women who began their international careers as AFS students now play a major role as diplomats and

government dignitaries. All of the individuals named below were AFS students. They are representative of many

other former AFS participants, or Returnees, who also work in the diplomatic and government services of their

countries.

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AFS RETURNEES, AMBASSADORS ANDGOVERNMENT DIGNITARIES

Ruth PearceAmbassador of Australia to Poland and the Czech Republic

Gerhard PfanzelterSecretary General of the Central European Initiative, Italy; Former Ambassador of Austria to the United Nations

Ernesto Pfirter Ambassador, Chief Executive, Foreign Relations Secretariat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Argentina

Leela PonappaDeputy National Security Adviser, India; Former Ambassador of India to the Netherlands

Sitthichai PookaiyaudomMinister of Information and Communication Technology, Thailand

Ole Lønsmann PoulsenAmbassador of Denmark to India

Juan PratAmbassador of Spain to the Netherlands

Eduardo Rodríguez VeltzéFormer President of Bolivia

Rainald RoeschMinister Counsellor, Embassy of Germany, London, United Kingdom

Thomas SchäferAmbassador of Germany to North Korea

Nikolaus ScherkAmbassador, Head of the Department of Asian Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Austria

Inger A. SegelströmMember of the European Parliament, Sweden

Toshinori ShigeieAmbassador of Japan to Korea

Kunio ShimizuFormer Ambassador of Japan to Algeria

Yasuhisa ShiozakiMember of the House of Representatives, Japan

Ivo SieberMinister Counsellor, Embassy of Switzerland, Stockholm, Sweden

Charlotte SlenteAmbassador of Denmark to Bolivia

Nick SmithMinister for the Environment, Climate Change Issues and ACC and Member of the Parliament, New Zealand

Sérgio Abreu e Lima Florêncio SobrinhoAmbassador of Brazil to Mexico

Michael SternbergAmbassador of Denmark to Thailand

Madeleine Ströje-WilkensAmbassador of Sweden to Iceland

Amos Tincani Ambassador, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Burkina Faso

Roberto Toscano Ambassador of Italy to Iran

Kim TraavikAmbassador, Norwegian Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council

Helmut TürkAmbassador, Vice-President, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, Hamburg, Germany

Aladin VillacorteFormer Ambassador of Philippines to Iran and Uzbekistan

Maria Luiza ViottiAmbassador of Brazil to the United Nations

Percy WesterlundAmbassador, Head of Delegation of the European Commission to Norway and Iceland

Penny WilliamsHigh Commissioner of Australia to Malaysia

Hiroshi YamaguchiConsul General of Japan in Miami, USA

Motohide Yoshikawa Ambassador of Japan to Spain

Guillermo ZúñigaMinister of the Treasury of Costa Rica

1 H.E. Eric G. John, Ambassador

of the United States to Thailand,

presents a certificate to an AFS

student at AFS Thailand’s Pre-

Departure Homestay, Bangkok,

March 27, 2009

2 H.E. Zalmay Khalilzad, Former

Ambassador of the United States

to the United Nations, with J. Brian

Atwood, AFS Intercultural Programs

Chairperson, at AFS UN Luncheon,

New York, June 6, 2008

3 H.E. Maria Luiza Viotti,

Ambassador of Brazil to the United

Nations, at AFS UN Luncheon, New

York, June 6, 2008

4 Mr. Francisco (Tachi) Cazal and Mr.

César Gaviria, Former President of

Colombia, at AFS Colombia’s 50th

anniversary, University Javeriana,

Bogotá, May 29, 2009

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BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Floria AriasTurrialba, Costa RicaCo-founder, Bufete Chaves & Arias

J. Brian Atwood (Chair)Minnesota, USADean, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota

Nils BauerHamburg, Germany COO & VP, International Affairs ofDatenlotsen GmbH, Inc.

Francisco (Tachi) Cazal(ex officio) New York, USAPresident & Chief Executive Officer, AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.

Dr. Hassan El Kalla*Cairo, EgyptChairman, Futures Educational Systems

Maureen ErasmusSurrey, England Former Global Head of GMICorporate Strategy, Merrill Lynch

Prof. Carlo FusaroFlorence, ItalyProfessor & Director of Department of Public Law, Universityof Florence

Dr. RIcardo GarayAsunción, ParaguayDean of Graduate Studies,National University of Asuncion

Francisco de la Fuente Guerra, IIIMakati City, Philippines Vice President, Developing Markets - ASEAN & Korea, S.C. Johnson

Christian A. Kurtén (Vice Chair)Helsingfors, FinlandNokia Networks (retired)

William MeserveMassachusetts, USASenior Counsel, Ropes and Gray

Don MohanlalLondon, United Kingdom &New Delhi, IndiaPresident and CEO of the Nand & Jeet Khemka Foundation in India and United Kingdom

Ginny RadfordAuckland, New Zealand

Managing Director, Cobalt

Communications, Ltd.

Henrique RamosNatal-RN, Brazil

Architect and Founder,

Tekton Arquitetura

Ernesto Rey MorenoBogota, Colombia

President, Links S.A.

Mietta Rodeschini*Bergamo, Italy

Corporate Attorney,

Rodeschini Group

Tsugiko ScullionConnecticut, USA

Special Advisor to the

Executive Director,

Japan Committee for UNICEF

Kerry SinKuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Managing Partner,

Raja Ariff & Sin

Keith StockNew York, USASenior Managing Director & Chief Strategy Officer, TIAA-CREF

Yuzo Takada*Osaka, JapanGeneral Manager, Mitsui & Co., Ltd.

Ronaldo Veirano*Rio de Janeiro, BrazilFounding Partner, VeiranoAdvogados Associados

Simpiwe Kenneth TshabalalaSouth Africa Chief Executive, Retail Banking,SA Standard Bank of South Africa

Dr. Ulrich Weiss*Frankfurt, GermanyFormer Member of the Board of Deutsche Bank AG (retired)

R. Müge YüzüakNew York, USAChief of Staff,Citigroup Global Consumer Group

*AFS gratefully acknowledges the con-

tributions made by these trustees, who

recently completed their service.

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

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LIFE TRUSTEES

Mr. Ward Chamberlin, Jr.**Massachusetts, USAPresident, Chamberlin AssociatesVice-President & Managing Director, Channel Thirteen/WNET (retired)

Mr. Norman C. Eddy**New York, USAMinister & Coordinator of East Harlem Interfaith, United Church of Christ (retired)

Mr. Arthur Howe, Jr.**Connecticut, USAPresident, AFS (1965–1971)(retired)

Dr. Richard M. Hunt**Massachusetts, USAUniversity Marshal, HarvardUniversity (retired)

Ms. Sachiye KuwamotoCalifornia, USARegional Director, Japanese-American Citizens League (retired)

Mr. Edwin R. Masback, Jr.**New York, USAPresident, Masback Hardware Company (retired)

** World War II American Field Service Ambulance Driver.

MANAGEMENT COUNCIL

Apithai Buranasiri Partner DirectorThailand

Jatta ErlundExecutive DirectorFinland

Johanna NemethSecretary GeneralAustria

Juan MediciExecutive Director/Business ManagerArgentina

Mick PetersmannPartner Director Germany

Rosario GutierrezPartner Director Colombia

Sabine SiegristPartner Director Switzerland

Victoria VillalbaPartner Director Paraguay

Vincenzo Morlini Executive Director Italy

Yuzo TakadaNational Director Japan

EXECUTIVE TEAM

Francisco “Tachi” Cazal President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer

Dominik Scherrer Chief Information and Consulting Officer

Christine Vogel Chief Development and Branding Officer

Dr. Urs-Rainer von Arx Vice President, Chief Financial & Operations Officer

EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

Dipl.-Psych. Heike AbtIKO-Institute for CooperationManagement at the University of RegensburgRegensburg, Germany

Milton J. Bennett, Ph.D.Executive Director, The InterculturalDevelopment Research InstituteHillsboro, Oregon, USA andMilan, Italy

Prof. Dr. Jürgen BoltenProfessor of InterculturalBusiness CommunicationUniversität JenaJena, Germany

Mitchell R. Hammer, Ph.D.President IDI, LLC & HammerConsulting, LLCOcean Pines, Maryland, USA

Bruce La Brack, Ph.D.Professor of Anthropology andInternational Studies, School ofInternational Studies, University of the PacificStockton, California, USA

Dr. Roberto RuffinoSecretary General, InterculturaColle di Val d’Elsa, Siena, Italy

Andrea SebbenCross-cultural Training and PsychologyMember of International Associa-tion for Cross-cultural PsychologyPorto Alegre, RS, Brazil

Marianella Pirzio Biroli SclaviProfessor of Ethnography and theArt of ListeningPolytechnic University of MilanMilan, Italy

Kumiko Torikai, Ph.D. Professor, Graduate Schoolof Intercultural CommunicationRikkyo UniversityTokyo, Japan

LIFE TRUSTEES, MANAGEMENT COUNCIL,EXECUTIVE TEAM AND EDUCATIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL

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AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc. (“AFS International”) is a not-for-profit organization incorporated under the laws of New York

State, USA, and is a tax-exempt organization under the Internal Revenue Code 501(c)(3) of the United States of America.

AFS Partner organizations (“Partners”) are incorporated under the laws of the country in which they are located and likewise

prepare financial statements and tax reports as required by the jurisdictions in their respective countries.

Each Partner undergoes an annual fiscal audit and presents to AFS International a copy of the independent auditor’s opinion

along with its financial statements. While rules and regulations vary among Partner nations, audits generally follow standards

consistent with U.S.–based GAAP (Generally Accepted Accounting Principles). The tables presented are not the result of

an audit performed by one firm, but represent combined information from audits performed by a number of independent

auditors around the world. The summary format of the tables reflects the combined financial activities in the AFS worldwide

Network of Partners. The information for 2007 has been gathered from the 2007 audited financial statements of 50 Partners

and includes AFS International. The 2008 figures presented on the opposite page are based on preliminary estimates,

pending completion of annual audits around the world.

Dr. Urs-Rainer von Arx

Vice President, Chief Financial & Operations Officer

Balance Sheet (in US dollars) Statement of Activities (in US dollars)

2007 AFS WORLDWIDE NETWORK

ASSETS

Cash and Receivables

Investments

Property and Equipment

Other Fixed Assets

Prepaid Expenses and Deposits

TOTAL ASSETS

LIABILITIES

Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses

Mortgages

Loans

Deposits and Funds Held for Others

and Deferred Income

Other Liabilities

TOTAL LIABILITIES

NET ASSETS

Board Designated Funds

General Unrestricted

Temporarily Restricted

Permanently Restricted

TOTAL NET ASSETS

TOTAL LIABILITIES AND NET ASSETS

64,547,946

21,480,500

8,601,551

1,375,996

16,455,252

112,461,245

15,482,489

335,010

888,402

36,644,819

2,676,044

56,026,764

27,441,669

12,703,607

11,174,233

5,114,972

56,434,481

112,461,245

PROGRAM REVENUES

CONTRIBUTIONS RECEIVED

Corporations, Foundations and Government

AFS Volunteer Local Network

Individual Donors

Other Fundraising Income

Interest and Other Revenues

TOTAL REVENUES

Program Expenses

Administrative Expenses

Interest and Other Expenses

TOTAL EXPENSES

SURPLUS (DEFICIT)

125,387,788

18,195,688

400,720

1,547,117

1,594,520

2,993,875

150,119,708

(103,059,750)

(42,220,956)

(1,658,510)

(146,939,216)

3,180,492

1 Administrative expenses include both program and administrative personnel costs.

1

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Where AFS ParticipantsCame from in 2008

AFS Participants in 2008

AFS Volunteers Worldwide

Where AFS Host FamiliesWere in 2008

12,458

CommunityService 648

Volunteers 253

Educators 116

University-based 66

Language Study 630 Homestay 976

School-based 9,769

USAEUROPE

ASIA,

PACIFIC

AND AFRICA

THE

AMERICAS

(WITHOUT

USA)

46%

34%

26%

23% 20%23%

16%12%

1,083

ADULTPROGRAMS

11,375

41,711

YOUTHPROGRAMS

*The total net assets amount reported for AFS-USA includes restricted net assets of $16,830,781, which are primarily grant funds that will be reduced by future years’ expenditures.

The 2008 figures presented in these tables are preliminary estimates provided by AFS Partners.

AFFILIATIONS

AFS has special consultative status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations and works with the Department of Public Information of the United Nations. AFS is a participating member of the following international organizations: The Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) and the Institute of International Education (IIE). The European Federation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL) is the umbrella organization for AFS Partners in Europe. EFIL has consultative status with the Council of Europe and with UNESCO and is a member of the European Youth Forum. EFIL cooperates with and is a member of many European education and youth organizations. AFS-USA is a founding member of the Alliance for International Education and Cultural Exchange, and serves on the board of directors of the Council on Standards for International Educational Travel (CSIET). Other AFS Partner organizations in many countries maintain affiliations with their respective national youth councils, international education associations and other governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Europe

Asia, Pacific and Africa

The Americas (without USA)

USA*

AFS International

Worldwide Totals

Europe

Asia, Pacific and Africa

The Americas (without USA)

USA

AFS International

Worldwide Totals

Total Assets

53,550,840

26,338,027

20,178,417

23,236,195

10,671,382

133,974,861

Total Revenues

70,191,217

32,164,616

27,082,988

30,610,706

15,351,848

175,401,375

Total Liabilities

42,974,054

11,132,610

8,152,125

5,334,179

2,816,370

70,409,338

Total Expenses

69,143,883

29,046,715

27,718,333

29,596,438

15,200,159

170,705,528

Net Assets

10,576,786

15,205,417

12,026,292

17,902,016

7,855,012

63,565,523

Net Results

1,047,334

3,117,901

(635,345)

1,014,268

151,689

4,695,847

2008 AFS FINANCES, PROGRAMS AND AFFILIATIONS

2008 AFS Worldwide Net Assets (in US dollars)

2008 AFS Worldwide Operating Results (in US dollars)

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International

Floria Arias

Robert B. Bottomley

Francisco Cazal

Dr. Bayard Clarkson

Maureen Erasmus

David K. Ford

The Frank Pace, Jr. Foundation,

Inc. (Ward Chamberlin, Jr.)

Carlo Fusaro

Francisco Guerra

Hassler Trust

InterNations

From the Directors’

Discretionary Fund of the

Jessie Smith Noyes

Foundation

Christian Kurtén

Sachiye Kuwamoto

Christopher Mark Little

and Wife

Bill Meserve

Don Mohanlal

Denton Tavares Paes

Ginny Radford

Mietta Rodeschini

Mike Sherman

Keith Stock

SynerCharge Chicago

David V. Uihlein

Christine Vogel

Dr. Ulrich Weiss

Arthur F. Williams

R. Müge Yüzüak

Argentina

AFS Japan

AFS USA

All Seasons

Aricana

Baires Impresores S.A.

Mrs. Maria Teresa Basualdo

Cargill, Inc (USA)

Mr. Alberto Raul Castro

Mr. Fernando Castro

Miss Laura Copteleza

Clínica Cruz Azul

Mr. Marcos Santa Cruz

Mr. Alberto Elia

Fund Creation, Co, Ltd

Fundación Cargill Argentina

Gerhard and Diana

Müller-Notti Family

GJ S.R.L. Tecnologias

de la Información

Gobierno de la Ciudad

de Buenos Aires

Hotel Libertador Tandil

IBM Argentina

InterNations

Mr. Stuart Israelson

Miss Valentina Koifman

Mr. Marcos Lardone

Mr. Nicolás Lucciarini

Mr. Sebastián Mattos

Mr. Juan Medici

MSB & Asociados

Municipalidad de Rafaela

Neptuno Viajes

OgilvyOne Worldwide

de Argentina

Mr. Victor Oporto

Otto Bremer Foundation

Mr. Pablo Pecini

Petrolera Esso

Radio Taxi Cart

Real Embajada de Noruega

en Argentina

Reutemann Automotores

SAP

SC Johnson

United States Embassy

in Buenos Aires

VascoTour

Mr. Alexis Zlocowski

Australia

AFS Australia Volunteer States

& Local Groups

Anglo Coal Australia Pty Limited

ANZ Regional, Rural

and Small Business Banking

Commonwealth Department

of Defence

BlueScope Steel Limited

Clayton Utz

Commonwealth Bank

of Australia

Downer EDI Mining Pty Limited

Deaf Children Australia

Japan-Australia LNG (MIMI)

Pty Limited

JENESYS (AFS Japan)

J-Power Australia Pty Limited

Kimberly-Clark Australia

Pty Limited

KPMG

Leighton Holdings Limited

Linfox Pty Limited

Mitsui Coal Holdings Pty Limited

MEXT (AFS Japan)

Optus Networks Pty Limited

PaperlinX Limited

Pratt Foundation

QR Limited

Rio Tinto Aboriginal Fund

Rio Tinto WA Future Fund

Shop, Distributive and Allied

Employees Association

Simplot Australia Pty Limited

Sony Foundation Australia

The Port of Broome

Visy Industries

Sydney Water

Water Corporation

Western Power

Xstrata Coal

Austria

AFS Stipendienstiftung

Austrian Airlines

Bundesministerium für

Unterricht, Kunst und Kultur

Marshall Plan Foundation

Belgium

AFS Interculturele Programma’s vzw

Europese Overheid European

Funds EVS

Europese Overheid European

Funds Comenius

Foundation AFS Stichting

Vlaamse Overheid,

loonsubsidies

Fonds Sociale Maribel voor de

Socioculturele sector

Vlaamse Overheid, departement

Jeugd, subsidies


Jeugd, beurzen voor deelname

aan internationale initiatieven


Jeugd, loonsubsidies VIA-

akkoorden


Jeugd, subsidies voor vorming

VIVO

AFS Programmes Interculturels

Belgian AFS Foundation

Bureau International de

Jeunesse de la Communauté

française

Connections Travel

European Funds EVS

Fondation Chimay-La Wartoise

Gouvernement de la Région

Wallonne

Service Jeunesse du Ministère

de la Communauté française

de Belgique

Belgian AFS Foundation

Aramis and partners

Mr. and Mrs. Cops-Clijsters

Mr. Herman Croux

Erwinvest NV

Etex group

Fonds Benoît

Fondation Roi Baudouin – King

Baudewijn Stichting

Fortis Foundation Belgium

Ministère des Affaires

étrangères – Ministerie van

Buitenlandse zaken

Mr. Ludo Nijs

Mr. and Mrs. Nyssens-Lechien

AFS DONORS AROUND THE WORLDIn addition to the many donors recognized below who have provided support for AFS programs during 2008,

thousands of individuals, schools and many other organizations and institutions who number too many to list here

have also made invaluable contributions. AFS wishes to express its sincere appreciation to all of them. AFS Partner

organizations also regularly provide scholarships from their internal resources to assist participants. Donors listed

below have contributed US$1,000 or more in the past year.

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Brazil

AFS Germany: Helga von

Hoffmann-Scholarship

AFS International Scholarship

(Diversity Fund)

Americana - AFS Chapter

Joel Carlos de Souza Andrade

Belo Viagens e Turismo Ltda.

Cargill, Inc. (USA)

Claus Ivo Doering

Degussa/Evonik

Exxon Mobil

Felipe Caetano Ferreira

Helena Vantini S Molinari

Maria Helena de Oliveira

Henrqiue Seganfredo

Luiz Otávio Almeida Bueno

e Silva

Tatiane Santos Silva

Voith AG (Germany)

Canada

91788380 Qc. Inc./

Distrubution A.Gelinas

Chitra Babaranda

E.J. Baylis Creary

Colette Beauregard

Richard Beauregard

Christine Benoit

Carol Berlin-Miller

Daniel Bernard

Nicole Berube

Luc Bissonnette

Me Francois Bouchard

Louis Boudreau

Francine Brabant

Marie Brault

Susan Brock

Caisse Desjardins de

l’Ouest de Laval

Sheila Carroll

Centre d’Evaluation et de

Rec/Clinique de Lanaudiere

Yvon Charrette

Carole Chevalier

Corporation Medicale

Professionnelle

Manon Cote

Alain Cottier

Sylvain Courcelles

Denis Couture

Ronald S. Creary

Francois Crepeau

Normand Dagenais

Rene Deschenes

Marc Dion

James Donald

Debora L. Eben

Michel Fillion

Anzhelika Fitzimmons

Suzanne Fortin

Michel Gagnon

Jocelyne Gaudette

Gabrielle Giguere

Louise Girard

Christian Goulet

Helene Gregoire

Lucille Houle

Isolation Morissette Ltee

Carmen Jodoin

Marie-France Journet

Kids in the Hall Bistro

Terry Klassen

Eva Komers

Petr Komers

Suzanne Kort Litman

Francois Lagace

Renaud Lambert

D.P. Lamothe

Rene Lamothe

Luc Langelier

Keven Langlais

Liliane Laroche

Jacques Lavoie

Micheline Leclerc

Andre Leroux

Audrey Levesque

Maurice Marchitello

Caroline Martel

Andree Menard

Marie Methot

David Miller

Aline Montplaisir

Martin Pare

Rebecca Park

Jean-Luc Pennet

Jean-Pierre Perron

Photo Rodrigue Larouche

Sylvie Pilotte

Pioneer Meadows Golf

Course Ltd.

Chantal Rainville

Marie-Helene Richard

Saputo

Dominique Simard

Jean-Francois Simard

Stephen Small

Celine St-Onge

France Talbot

Ericka Tanguay

Lottmann International

Technology, Ltd.

Stiftung “Erinnerung,

Verantwortung und Zukunft”

(Germany)

Denmark

Aasiaat Kommune

Danish Lotto Fund

EU Youth Programme

Krak’s Foundation

Ministry of Education

Nanortalik Kommune

Sisimiut Kommune

Dominican Republic

Altagracia Carrasco de Cruz

Asociación Nacional de

Esgrima

Familia Marcelino Fernández

Lotería Nacional Dominicana

Mercedes Collado de Trigo

Mercedes Coronado de Grullón

Padre Héctor Sánchez

Voluntariado de

República Dominicana

Egypt

AFS Finland

AFS Norway

AFS Spain

AFS Switzerland

AFS Thailand

AFS USA, Inc.

American Cairo College

Angilikiya Language School

Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean

Foundation for the Dialogue

between Cultures

City of Stuttgart (Germany)

Dar Eltarbeya American

Dr. Nermine Ismail Schools

El Minia Experimental School

El Quds American Schools

Future American Schools

Mr. Ishac George

Governorate of Aswan

Governorate of Cairo

Governorate of El Fayoum

Governorate of El Minia

Governorate of Ismailia

Governorate of Port Said

Intercultura (AFS Italy)

Dr. Hassan El Kalla

Leaders Language Schools

Richard Tessier

The Gateway Benevolent

Society

Odette Toussignant

Michel Tremblay

Nancy Tremblay

Lucie Turenne

Maureen Van Tassell

Lois Vantassell

Michel Villeneuve

Pierre Vincent

W.B.L. Technologie Inc.

Whitebear First Nation/

Education Complex

Hwon Young Yeo

Chile

Banco de Crédito e Inversiones

Beca Martina Jiménez D.

China

BlueScope Steel (Australia)

Kamenori Foundation, Inc.

(Japan)

Ministry of Education of Japan

Ministry of Education of

New Zealand

Stiftung Mercator GmbH

(Germany)

Regione Campania Local

Authority, Intercultura

Foundation (Italy)

Colombia

COMFACAUCA

EPSA

Productos Roche S.A.

Costa Rica

AFS Costa Rica

AFS Intercultural Programs

AFS Japan - Ministry of

Education

Lotte Landolt

Antonin Smucler

Czech Republic

Czech-Germany Future Fund

E - in, Ltd.

Jitka Novácková

Katerina Koleckárová

LANDESSTIFTUNG Baden-

Württemberg gGmbH

(Germany)

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Mahmoud Othman Foundation


Misr Language Schools

Modern Schools of Egypt

2000

Nefertary Language School

Pepsi-Cola Egypt

Pioneers Language Schools

Port Said International School

Port Said Language School

Saint Joseph’s School

St. Vincent School

Suez Canal Language School

The Cultural Development Fund

U.S. Department of State,

Bureau of Educational

and Cultural Affairs

Unilever mashreq

Victoria Collage Schools

Finland

Anja Luukanen Fund

Finnair

Hannes Snellman Attorneys

at Law Ltd.


Württemberg gGmbH

(Germany)


National Board of Education

NOKIA

France

Conseil Général des Bouches

du Rhône

Conseil Général de Moselle

Conseil Régional de Lorraine

Crédit Mutuel

Ferrero SpA (Italy)

Landesstiftung Baden-

Württemberg gGmbH

Alex Gabriel

Germany

Antenne Mecklenburg-

Vorpommern GmbH & Co. KG

AFS Internationale Stipendien-

München e.V.

AFS Komitee Bochum

AFS Stiftung für Interkulturelle

Begegnungen

Michael Beseler

Klaus Bieg

Meinolf Blessenohl

Annemarie und Helmut Börner

Stiftung

Annette Kade Charitable

Trust Fund (New York)

B. Braun Melsungen AG

Bayerischer Landesjugendring

Beru Aktiengesellschaft

Berufsbildungswerk

Philipp Jakob Wieland

Stiftung des Privatrechts

der Wieland-Werke AG Ulm

Bild hilft e.V. “Ein Herz für

Kinder”

Bingo! Die Umweltlotterie

Bionade GmbH

BLANCO GmbH + Co KG

Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH

BP Foundation

Brandenburgische Landeszentrale

für politische Bildung

Bundesministerium für Familie,

Senioren, Frauen und Jugend

Bundesministerium für

wirtschaftliche

Zusammenarbeit (BMZ)

Bundesamt für den Zivildienst

Bürgerstiftung

Leverkusen - Eine

Initiative von Stadt und

Sparkasse

CA Matching Charitable Gifts

Program (JK Group)

Callcompany

Telekommunikationsdienste

GmbH

Carl Lueg Stiftung

Chamäleon Reisen GmbH

Checkpoint Charlie Stiftung

Citibank Privatkunden AG &

CO. KGaA

Clariant

Verwaltungsgesellschaft

mbH

Christoph Cleve

Daimler AG

Degussa Bank GmbH

Deutsche Bank AG

Deutscher Bundestag

Deutsch-Tschechischer

Zukunftsfonds

Deutsche Bank Stiftung

Dr. Dirk Baier Stiftung

Easter Unlimited

EKO-Stiftung Bildung

Ostbrandenburg

Stiftung Dorothee

und Felix Elgeti

E.ON Mitte-Stiftung

Stiftung „Erinnerung,

Verantwortung und Zukunft“

Evonik Industries AG

Europäische Union

Ferrero MSC GmbH & Co. KG

Dorothea Fitterling

Meinhard Forster

Forum Region Stuttgart e.V.

Gemeinnütziges Kinder- und

Jugendhilfswerk Wurzen e.V.

und LIONS Club Wurzen “Graf

Lindenau”

Oliver Hartmann

Hilger-Björn Hilgerloh

Homena - Hetz Educational

Foundation, Inc.

Monika & Rainer Hoss

Infraserv GmbH & Co.

Höchst KG

InterNations GmbH

Ida und Richard Kaselowsky

Stiftung

Marlene Ippen

James-F.-Byrnes-Institut e.V.

– Deutsch-Amerikanisches

Zentrum

Gerwald Kern

Holger Klein

Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau

(KfW) - ERP-Transatlantik

Programm

Kreuzberger Kinderstiftung

Land Baden-Württemberg

Regierungspräsidium Stuttgart

Land Hessen Kultusministerium

Landesamt für Versorgung und

Soziales des Landes Sachsen-

Anhalt

Landesbank Baden-

Württemberg

Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart

Projektmittelfonds „Zukunft der

Jugend“


Württemberg gGmbH

(Germany)

Lions Club Germersheim

Stefan Malitz

Eckart Meusel

Marga und Kurt Möllgaard Stiftung

Gerhard Müller

Nolte moebel-industrie

Novartis Behring GmbH & Co.

Frank Otto

Possehl-Stiftung

Putz & Partner

Unternehmensberatung AG

Saint Gobain Isover G+H AG

Sanofi-Aventis

Deutschland GmbH

SAP AG

Schwabengarage AG

Jürgen Stasch

Alexandra Stein-Britz

Walter Reinhard Stenzel

Stiftung Landesbank Baden-

Württemberg


Hansjörg Stolz

Dieter Schwarz Stiftung gGmbH

Stadtjugendring Stuttgart e.V.

Stiftung der Sparkasse Herford

Stiftung Deutsch-Russischer

Jugendaustausch gGmbh

Stiftung van Meeteren

Karl Tauber

The Morita International

Educational Foundation in

Nagoya

Manfred Thuns

Travelzoo

TUI AG

Hanna und Michael Unkelbach

Voith AG

Ulrich Voss

Dr. Walter GmbH

Adolf Würth GmbH & Co. KG

Carl Zeiss AG

ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und

Gerd Bucerius

Ghana

AFS USA, Inc.




AFS DONORS AROUND THE WORLD

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Guatemala

Mr. Danilo Vasquez

Desarrollo de Franquicias -

Transdoc

Honduras

AFS Japan Scholarship Fund

Cargill, Inc. (USA)

Intercultura

Hong Kong

Anthony Cheng Bing Chung

Anthony Tong Kai Hong

Bank of East Asia

Joseph Bosco

Cargill Hong Kong Limited

Daniel Ng Yat Chiu

Paul Edmiston

Education Bureau, HKSAR

Sally Ferguson

Goldman Sachs (Asia) L.L.C.

Tara & David Hofmann

Hongkong Land Limited

Deirdre Allison Huang


(Japan)

Iris Tsang Hoi Kee

KPMG

Leighton (Asia) Limited

Debra Meiburg

Michael Leung Kai Hung

Mike Sherman

Onwel Garment Holdings

Limited

Jonathan Seth Richman

S. H. Leung & Co.


(Germany)

Alec Stuart

Sun Hung Kai Properties Limited

Takbo Limited

The Hong Kong &

China Gas Company Limited

The Hongkong and Shanghai

Banking Corporation Limited

The Hong Kong Jockey Club

Charities Trust

The Octavian Society Limited

Graham Young

Hungary

Banca Intesa (Italy)

Kaposvár MJV Polgármesteri

Hivatal


Württemberg gGmgH

(Germany)

Nemzeti Civil Alapprogram

Iceland

The Ministry of Education,

Science and Culture

The City of Reykjavík

SPRON

India

AFS Japan Association, Inc.

AFS Intercultural Programs, Inc.

HIRCO Development Private

Limited

Intercultura Foundation, Italy

Jacob Ballas Capital India

Private Limited

JENESYS (AFS Japan)


(Japan)

TATA STEEL

TATA Motors Limited

TGI Friday (BISTRO Hospitality

Private Limited)




Indonesia

AFS Interkulturelle

Begegnungen

e.V. (AFS Germany)

AFS Japan

AFS USA, Inc.

AFS SUI

PT. Krama Yudha Tiga

Berlian Motors


(Germany)

The Government of Japan/

The Ministry of Foreign

Affairs




Italy

ABB Spa

Alenia Aeronautica Spa

AliGroup Spa

Allianz Spa

Amici di Alessandro Spagni

ASM Azienda Servizi Municipali

di Rieti

Associazione Regionale Sarda

Intercultura

Baden Wuerttemberg

Banca del Canavese

Banca popolare di Verona,

S.Giminiano e S.Prospero

Banca Toscana

Banco di Credito P. Azzoaglio

Spa

Barilla G. e R. Fratelli Spa

BONDIOLI & PAVESI Spa

Camera di Commercio di Rieti

Cassa di Risparmio di Parma e

Piacenza - Crédit Agricole

Cassa di Risparmio della

Provincia de L’Aquila Spa

CEL Components

Centro di Terapia Cognitiva Srl

Centro locale di Como

Centro locale di Trento

Centro Servizi Volontariato

di Taranto

Compagnia di San Paolo

Comune di Baceno

Comune di Crema

Comune di Crevoladossola

Comune di Formazza

Comune di Gressoney St Jean

Comune di Novara

Comune di Rieti

Comune di Trento

Comune di Verbania

Deutsche Bank Spa

Ferrero Spa

Fondazione ASM

Fondazione Banco di Sardegna

Fondazione Banco di Sicilia

Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio

di Bolzano


di Cesena


di Gorizia

Fondazioen Cassa di Risparmio

di Padova e Rovigo


di Trento e Rovereto

Fondazione CRT

Fondazione Italcementi

Cav. Lav Carlo Pesenti

Fondazione Pietro Manodori

Fondazione Varrone - Cassa

di Risparmio di Rieti

Fondo Maurizio Oneglio e

Marina Pallaver

Gruppo Edilia Spa

ICA Spa

In memoria di Fernanda Astuti

In memoria di Lisa Corsini

Intercultura 5 per mille

Intercultura - Golden Club

Intesa Sanpaolo Spa

Micron Technology Italia Srl

Oragnizzazione Produttori

Ortofrutticoli Abruzzesi

Parmalat Spa

Provincia dell’Ogliastra

Provincia di Bergamo

Presider Srl

Provincia di Cremona

Provincia di Firenze

Provincia di Rieti

Provinica di Sassari

Provincia di Treviso

RCS MediaGroup Spa

Regione Autonoma Sardegna

Regione Autonoma Valle

d’Aosta

Regione Basilicata

Regione Campania

Studio Effe Sas

Telecom Italia Spa

Tenaris Dalmine Spa

Telespazio Spa

Thales Alenia Space Italia Spa

TNT Post Services Srl

UBI Banca X Banca Popolare

di Bergamo-Bergamo

Unione Industriali di Como

Japan

ACOM Co., Ltd.

Airport Transport Service Co.,

Ltd.

American Express Foundation

Mr. Goro Aoki

Mr. Hideyuki Aoki

ASEAN Foundation

Association of International

Education, Japan/UNESCO

ATOMIC Assets Advisers., Ltd.

CHUBU Electric Power

Company, Inc.-Shizuoka

Earth Conscious, Inc.

Friends of AFS Japan

Fujii Gastroenterologic Clinic

Fukuoka-shi Kyoiku Shinkokai

Fund Creation Co., Ltd.

The Gibraltar Life Insurance

Co., Ltd.

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Goldman Sachs Japan Co., Ltd.

Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

- Hamamatsu

Mr. Yuichi Imasato

Infomate Co., Ltd.

Itoh Foundation (USA)

JAL Academy Co., Ltd.

JAL Card, Inc.

JAL Logistics, Inc.

JAL Royal Catering Co., Ltd.

Japan Australia LNG

(MIMI) Pty. Ltd. (Australia)

The Japan Foundation

JINTEC Corporation

JT Inc.

JTB Business World Tokyo

Corporation


Mr. Akio Katsuragi

Mr. Hiromasa Kawaguchi

Kodera Oil & Fat Co., Ltd.

Komatsu City

Mr. Naohiko Kuno

Language House, Inc.

Mr. Masanori Makihara

Ministry of Education, Culture,

Sports, Science and

Technology

Mitsubishi Corporation

Mr. Yutaka Mizukoshi

Morgan Stanley

The Morita Scholarship

Foundation

Nagaoka Kome Hyappyo

Foundation

National Federation of

Workers and Consumers

Insurance Cooperatives-

Shizuoka

NeXus Corporation, Ltd.

Niigata City International

Exchange Foundation

Nikko Hotels International

Ms. Hiroko Nishida

Nissan Motor Co., Ltd.

The bereaved of the late

Ms. Sachiko Nojima,

Obama City

Odyssey Communications, Inc.

Mr. Hiroumi Ogawa

Mr. Terufumi Ohno

Mr. Toshiharu Okida

Onomichi City

Sasakiku Yakuhin Co., Ltd.

Mr. Shuji Sato

Mr. Kazuhiro Shinohara

Shizuoka Kinrosha Shinyou

Kikin Kyokai

Shizuoka Labor Bank

Shizuoka Shinkin Bank

Sony Foundation of

Science Education

SPUTNIK International Japan

Mr. Shouichi Suzuki

Suzuyo & Co., Ltd.

SWEDEN HOUSE Co., Ltd.

Taguchi Fukujukai Foundation

Mr. Hiroshi Takano

Mr. Ken Takeno

Mr. Hideaki Tokitou

Tokyo Electric Power

Company, Inc. - Numazu

U.S. Embassy in Japan

YAMAHA Corporation

YAMAHA Motor Co., Ltd.

Yamato Denki Seisakusho

Co., Ltd.

Anonymous (3)

Latvia

USA Embassy in Latvia

Malaysia

BlueScope Steel Ltd.

(Australia)

Fund Creation (Japan)

JENESYS (AFS Japan)


(Japan)

Malakoff Corporation Berhad

Ministry of Education Malaysia


(Germany)




Yayasan ABM

New Zealand

Aerolineas Argentinas

AFS Educational Trust

AFS New Zealand Chapters

AFS South Auckland

Counties Chapter

Aislabie Family Trust

Asia: New Zealand Foundation

BlueScope Steel Limited

C & F Mace

EVONIK Degussa

(formerly Degussa)

Fletcher Building Employee

Educational Fund

Friends of AFS

Kevin Greer

Japanese Government

(JENESYS Programme)

Maori Education Trust

Masonic Youth Trust

ModCom Portable

Buildings Ltd

MOTAT

Lufthansa Airlines

New Zealand Post Group

Orbit Corporate Travel

Pacifica Shipping (1985)

Limited

Mrs. Olive Stoddard

Sargood Bequest

Tenon Employee

Educational Fund

Trusts Charitable Foundation

Hayden Wayne Yarrall Trust

Yarrow South Charitable Trust

Norway

Barne- og

likestillingsdepartementet

Kultur- og kirkedepartementet

McDonald’s Norge A/S

NORAD (The Norwegian

Agency for Development

Cooperation)

Nord-Trøndelag

Elektrisitetsverk

StatoilHydro

STA Travel

Members and volunteers of

AFS Norway

Paraguay

Cargill, Inc. (USA)

Centro Cultural Paraguayo -

Americano (CCPA)

Exxon

Local Chapter - AFS Pilar

Mrs. Alba Pettengil

Peru

Agencia de Aduana

Ultramar S.A.

Oswaldo Sandoval Aguirre


Switzerland

Carlos Lazarte Hoyle

InterNations

Minera Barrick Misquichilca S.A.

Philippines

AFS Hong Kong

AFS Japan

AFS Philippines Chapters

AFS USA, Inc.

Ateneo de Manila University

Apithai Buranasiri

Cargill, Inc. (USA)

CEMG (Creative Enterprises

Management Group, Inc.)

Alabang Dela Salle Zobel

Department of Education

(DepEd), Center for

Student & Co-curricular

Affairs

Department of Foreign Affairs

(DFA)

Hector and Mary Grace

Dimacali

Frank and Bonnie Guerra

Holy Family Parochial School

Holy Trinity College, General

Santos City

Rainier Ibana

Lina Iñigo-Winebrenner

JENESYS (AFS Japan)

Leighton Company

Local Government Unit

of Cotobato City


of General Santos City


of Nueva Viscaya

Mindanao State University,

General Santos City

National Commission on the

Welfare of Disabled Persons

(NCWDP)

National Economic

Development

Authority (NEDA)


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Office of the President of the

Republic of the Philippines,

Office on Muslim Affairs

Office on Muslim Affairs

Leah Ponio




U.S. Embassy in Manila

University of St. La Salle,

Bacolod

Christine Vogel

Portugal

Agência Nacional PROALV -

Programa Aprendizagem ao

Longo da Vida

IPJ - Instituto Português da

Juventude

Russia

“Afanasiy” Ltd.

Intercultura (AFS Italy)

KMB BANK, Intesa Sanpaolo

group (Russia)


Württemberg gGmbH

(Germany)


Sports, Science and

Technology of Japan

South Africa

Evonik Industries AG

(Germany)

Spain

European Federation for

Intercutural Learning (EFIL)

Instituto Nacional de Juventud

(INJUVE)


Württemberg (Germany)

TravelZoo Foundation (USA)

Switzerland

Markus Allenspach

Sylvia Baumgartner

Georges Burki

Markus Castelli

Chairman of the City of Berne

Delegation of the European

Commission to Switzerland

Jürgen Fackelmayer

Familien-Vontobel-Foundation

Peter Gantenbein

HP Hewlett-Packard

Johann Jakob Rieter

Foundation

Karl Popper Foundation

Urs Kubli

Lonza Ltd. Visp

Angela Marczal Silva

Mercator Foundation, Germany

Municipality of Küsnacht

Municipality of Küssnacht

Christian Müller

Gabrielle Neuhaus

Federal Social Insurance

Office Switzerland -

Childhood, Youth and

Old-Age Affairs Section

Swiss International Airlines

Judith Wirth

Jürg Witmer

Swiss Youth Hostels

City of Zug

City of Zurich

Thailand

AFS Intercultural

Programs, INC. - International

Akiko’s wish (Japan)

American Chamber of

Commerce in Thailand

American University Alumni

Language Center (AUA)

Big C Supercenter Public

Company Limited

Chevron Thailand Exploration

and Production, Ltd.

Diethelm Limited

Embassy of the United States

of America

Esso (Thailand) Public

Company Limited

(Distribution)

ExxonMobil Exploration

and Production Khorat Inc.

ExxonMobil Limited (HRSC)

Global Fleet Sales Company

Limited/R.M. Asia Trading

Isuzu Group Foundation

Japan ASEAN Exchange

Projects (JAEP)

Japan ASEAN General

Exchange

Fund (JAGEF)

KASIKORN BANK

Mattel Bangkok Ltd.

Ministry of Culture of Thailand

Ministry of Education of

Thailand


Sports, Science and

Technology of Japan

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Japan

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of

Thailand

Regional English Language

Program - Embassy of the

United States of America

Srithai Superware Public

Company Limited

The Japan Foundation,

Bangkok

Tourism Authority of Thailand

The Embassy of the

United States of America

The FSN Community,

The Embassy of the United

States of America

US Department of States

Youth Program Division

Turkey

Adana Özel Gundogdu

High School


Diversity Scholarship Fund

ALEV High School

Baskent University -

Baskent Schools

Beykent High School

Bilimkent Schools

Binnaz - Ergun Melin

Coca-Cola Icecek

Garanti Bankası

HSBC Bank

Istanbul Metropolitan

Municipality

Ege High School

Turk High School

METU Developmental

Foundation High School

Microsoft Turkey

Nevin Bilginer

Open Society


(Germany)

T.R. Prime Ministry State

Planning Organisation

Yapı Kredi Bank

United States

The Abington Foundation


AFS Foundation of

Greater Milwaukee

Altria Group, Inc.

American Turkish Society

Cynthia C. Amitin

John and Myra Anderson

Marjorie B. Anderson

Melinda and Walter Andrews

Arizona Community

Foundation

Art and Martha Kaemmer

Fund of HRK Foundation

Astor Street Foundation

Avon Products Foundation, Inc.

James N. Bailey and RoAnn

Costin

Bank of America Charitable

Foundation

Avery and Andrew Barth

Anwyl Bates

Stephen R. Beckwith

Darrell W. Behnke

Thomas C. Benét

Janet M. Bennett

Gregory and Barbara Bicket

Penelope and John Biggs

BlueScope Steel

Susan Boeschen

C. Hunter and Pamela T. Boll

Robert B. Bottomley

Jeffrey D. Bower

Martha and Walter Brethauer

Robert T. Brown

Sylvia M. Bryand

Virginia V. Burgess

John and Janet Canning

The Capital Group Companies,

Inc.

Cargill

Caroline J.S. Sanders

Charitable Trust

Deborah Carstens

Central Houston Area Team

Centre

Laurent J. Chaix

Ward B. Chamberlin, Jr.

Bayard D. Clarkson

Martha Cochran and

Augustus Cochran, III

Colgate-Palmolive Company

Andrew J. Connick

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Christopher B. Cope and

Jamie J. Shaw

Lewis and Dorothy Cullman

C. Todd Cunningham

Henry S. D’Auria

Elizabeth Dauten

Dinyar and Aashish Devitre

James K. Donnell

Robert W. Downing

Drusilla Farwell Foundation

Carol A. Dunahoo

Michael B. Edwards

Anders and Mariann Ekernas

Louise Engleman

Peter M. Fannon

Elsie Fariss

Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund

Fiduciary Charitable

Foundation

Randolph H. Fields

Emily H. Fisher

Lilian W. Fisher

Candace and Bert Forbes

David K. Ford

Ford Motor Company Fund

John H. Forté

The Foundation for Jewish

Philanthropies

Foundation for the Carolinas

The Frank Pace, Jr.

Foundation, Inc.

Richard A. and

Susan P. Friedman

Edward C. Friedrichs, III

Lynette E. Freiss

Marie L. Gaillard

Gannett Foundation, Inc.

Carson and Joseph Gleberman

Alberto and Linda Grignolo

R. Elaine Hanson

Hardenbergh Foundation

Linda and Norman Harris, III

Valerie J. Haskell and

Jenni Stolarski

Sharon P. Haverstock

Estate of David S. Hendrick, III

David and Joan Henle

H. Jed Hepworth and

Lee Schubert

Katherine A. Herbermann

Grant Herman

Eleanor and Harry Hetz

Robert D. Hoffman

Rebecca L. Holt

Homena-Hetz Educational

Foundation Inc.

Greg L. Hopper

Kimberly Hornung-Marcy

Bernice V. Horst

Gertrude D. Houghton

Richard and Priscilla Hunt

Bruce E. Hunter

Janet and Richard Hunter

Hunter Industries Incorporated

Estate of Joseph and

Mary K. Husby

Shelly A. Immel

Gail M. Inaba

Independent Charities

of America

Paul J. Isaac

The Israelson Family

Foundation

Jack Forté Foundation, Inc.

Gary N. Jacobs

John P. & Eleanor R. Yackel

Foundation

Brooke H. Johnson Brown

Christina and Adrian Jones

W. Wilson Jones

Todd M. Joseph

Mary G. Kaljian

Bernard H. Kastory

Katherine Stone Kaufmann

Sandra Kaye

Michael and Rosalind Keiser

Suzanne D. Kellar

Amy S. Kelley

Acorn Alcinda Foundation, Inc.

Kesselman Family Foundation

Jeltje A. Koumans

Robert M. Kramer

Harris Kupperman

La Canada Chapter

Patricia L. Landers and

John G. Olson

Language & Culture

Worldwide, LLC

Jeffery D. Lawson

Mark A. Lazar

Thomas and Anne LeBlanc

Wendy Lee and

E.K. Easton Ragsdale

Ramon and Nancy Lopez

The Lucy & Eleanor S. Upton

Charitable Foundation

Luther I. Replogle Foundation

Russell and Marilyn Lyman

Grace Lyu-Volckhausen

Karen L. Madson

Terry and Connie Marbach

Carol E. and

Henry William Marshall

Mary E. Weinmann Charitable

Lead Unitrust

Todd W. Mathers

Barbara Strasen Mathews

William Chichester McClean, III

The McClean Family

Foundation

Sanford and Priscilla McDonnell

Sue and Thomas McDowell

Linda B. McKean

Bruce and Sharon Merrell

Robert W. and

Gladys S. Meserve Charitable

Trust

William G. Meserve

Jenny and Michael Messner

MetLife Foundation

Microsoft Giving Campaign

Scott A. Miller

Jean H. Milton

The Minnesota Community

Foundation

Stephen F. Mirabito

Frederick S. and

Judith S. Mishkin

Stephen and Amanda Morris

Kelly A. Moylan

Abigail S. Muraskin

Cynthia R. Stites and

Donald L. Nagle

The Namaste Foundation, Inc.

Alix S. Nathan

Helle Nathan

Nathan Family Charitable Fund

of the Oregon Community

Foundation

Christopher and Joyce Nelson

The New York

Community Trust

DeWitt Wallace Fund for

Youth

Stephen C. Nichols

Vigo G. Nielsen, Jr.

The Northern Trust Company

Northrop Grumman

Corporation

Florence H. Norton

Norwin Chapter

Eileen O’Leary

Erinch R. Ozada

Harold and Helene Pennington

George W. Perkins, Jr.

(deceased)

Lloyd J. Peterson

Emily N. Pfahler

Diane and

Burton Pickard-Richardson

Alex and Rose Marie Plinio

Michael Plouf and

Toni Robinson

Dale Ponikvar

Eleanor P. Price

The Prudential Foundation

Howard Rachofsky

Carol and Robert Ray

Red Crane Foundation

Thomas and Teita Reveley

Eleanor M. Revelle

The Revelle Fund of the

New Horizon Foundation

Stephen and

Kathleen Rhinesmith

Fredrica and J. Steven Rice

Kathryn Riddell

Charles L. Ritchie, Jr.

Gail and Frank Ritrievi

Kimberly Ritrievi and

Darryn Tilden

Peter M. Robinson

Thomas A. Rogers

Maureen and Mark Rossi

David and

Susan Gardner Rowley

The Roy A. Hunt Foundation

Mary B. Ruhl

John A. Rupp

The Samuel L. Westerman

Foundation

The San Diego Foundation

Saul and Mary Sanders

Anna and Jeffrey Schaider

Schering-Plough Corporation

Kenneth M. Schubert

Andrea Sehl

Robin and Phil Semas


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Jonathan Shakes

Kathryn G. Sharber

Julie and Henry Sharpe, III

Maria and John Shuck

Joan and Mark Siegel

George A. Singer

Isabel Sloane

Philip Kuhn and Mary L. Smith

The Speedwell Foundation

Jennifer Speers

Staritch Foundation, Inc.

Richard D. Stepp

Carl W. Stern, Jr.

Fredericka and

Howard Stevenson

Cathleen Uhl Stock and

Keith Stock

Sundar Subramaniam

Sandra W. Sweeney

Elayne and Thomas Techentin

David and Nancy Thacher

Leslie and William Thompson

Tiger Baron Foundation, Inc.

Whitney Tilson

Ruth and Fred Timme, III

Travelzoo Foundation

The Traverse Foundation

Thomas W. Turner

Margery and David Uihlein, Sr.

Unilever United States

Foundations, Inc




United Way of New York City

United Way of San Luis

Obispo County

Robert C. Updegrove

Frances and Bradford Urquhart

Polly and Floyd Van Weelden

Mary G. Vance

The Vanguard Charitable

Endowment Program

Victoria Foundation

The Walbridge Fund, Ltd.

Susan S. and

Kenneth L. Wallach

Karen E. Waller

Jeanne and Jack Wasbro

Mary E. Weinmann

Mitch Weisburgh

Bonnie A. Welch

James and Martha Wells

West Branch Chapter

J. David Willson

Craig L. Wilson

James L. Wilson

Patrick H. Windham and

Arati Prabhakar

John W. Windhorst, Jr.

David L. Wisowaty

Anne A. Witkowsky

Cynthia A. Wong and

Lawrence A. Rosenzweig

Blaikie and Robert Worth

Peter J. Yackel

Charles F. Yeiser and

Ruth Einstein

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The AFS Asia Pacific Initiative (AAI),

an organization composed of AFS

Partners in the Asian and Pacific region,

had its annual meeting in Changzhou,

China in April, 2008.

In his opening remarks, Mr. Bin Sato,

the AAI President welcomed the

assembled members by stating that

the organizations welcomes change

that will promote the growth of AFS

programs in the region.

Member countries were congratulated

on their achievements during the

meeting. AFS Japan continued its

successful implementation of the

Japan-East Asia Network of Exchange

for Students and Youth Program

(JENESYS). The goal of the program

is to create solidarity among the Asian

countries by promoting intercultural

understanding.

The program is sponsored by the

Japanese government.

Thailand was noted as one of the most

successful Partners in the AAI region.

Thailand’s sending program reached

470 participants per year and 60% of

participant placements are completed

in one day.

A number of new strategic initiatives

were discussed at the meeting. Among

these was the creation of a “Young

Journalist” scholarship program to

send participants from the Asia-Pacific

region to Latin America.

The Asia-Pacific region is one of the

most dynamic regions in the AFS

Network. The AAI leadership and its

members work together to promote

the AFS mission throughout this

important world area. In 2010 the AAI

will celebrate its 10th anniversary.

AAI

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AFS AROUND THE WORLD IN 2008AFS has been providing international educational exchange opportunities since 1919, with a major focus on secondary

school exchanges since 1947. Before 1971, all AFS exchanges involved the United States. As AFS grew and matured,

the range of AFS exchanges was broadened so that sojourners from many countries now go to a wide variety of

destinations. Today there are over 1,200 AFS program paths in the world.

As AFS programs have become multinational, the organization’s structure has evolved to reflect this reality. The AFS organization in most

countries is now an incorporated not-for-profit entity that we call a Partner. Each AFS Partner has its volunteer board of directors with

responsibility for the staff, office, budget and programs in its territory. AFS Intercultural Programs in New York provides overall leadership

and coordination and offers a number of core services, but Partners manage AFS program operations. This system of “Partnership” has

been in place since 1990. It successfully balances the independent yet interdependent nature of AFS organizations.

ArgentinaAFS Programas Interculturales

Chair: Cdr. Victor Oporto

Director: Lc. Juan Medici

www.afs.org.ar

AustraliaAFS Intercultural Programs

Chair: Mr. David Hudson

Director: Ms. Aasha Murthy

www.afs.org.au

AustriaAFS Österreich

Chair: Mr. Mag. Phillipp Wagner

Director: Dr. Johanna Nemeth

www.afs.at

BelgiumAFS-VZW Interculturele

Programma’s

Chair: Mr. Lieven Bauwens

Director: TBA

www.afsvlaanderen.be

AFS Programmes Interculturels

Chair: Mr. Damien Francenne

Director: Ms. Anne Sokal

www.afsbelgique.be

BoliviaAFS Programas Interculturales

Chair: Mrs. Eleni de Baldivieso

Director: Mrs. Carla Limache

www.afs.org.bo

BrazilAFS Intercultura Brasil

Chair: Mr. Almir Ramos

Interim Director: Ms. Rita Santos

www.afs.org.br

CanadaAFS Interculture Canada

Chair: Mr. Robert Deslandes

Director: Mr. Bernard Roy

www.afscanada.org

ChileAFS Chile

Chair: Mr. Patricio Sanchez

Director: Mr. Pablo Fernández

www.afs.cl

ChinaAFS-China Education Associationfor International ExchangeDirector: Ms. Zhang Lingwww.afs.org/china

ColombiaAsociación AFS ProgramasInterculturales ColombiaChair: Mr. Victor Di MarcoDirector: Mrs. Rosario GutierrezBecquetwww.afs.org.co

Costa RicaAFS Costa RicaChair: Mr. Guillermo BarqueroDirector: Mr. Rolando Arayawww.afs.or.cr

Czech RepublicAFS Mezikulturni ProgramyChair: Mr. Michael RosakDirector: Ms. Karolína Puttováwww.afs.cz

DenmarkAFS InterkulturChair: Mr. Bjarke Rix RasmussenDirector: Mrs. Annelise Bechwww.afs.dk

Dominican RepublicAFS Intercambios Culturales, Inc.Chair: Mrs. Olga EspaillatDirector: Mr. Pablo Viñaswww.afs.org.do

EcuadorCorporación AFS ProgramasInterculturalesChair: Mr. Luis HernandezDirector: Mr. Juan Rodriguezwww.afsecuador.org

EgyptAFS Egypt - Egyptian Societyfor Intercultural ExchangeChair: Mr. Adel MahmoudDirector: Mrs. Sherifa Fayezwww.afs-egypt.org

European Federation forIntercultural Learning (EFIL)Chair: Dr. Roberto RuffinoDirector: Mr. Paul Claeswww.efil.afs.org

FinlandAFS Intercultural ProgramsChair: Mr. Mårten AspelinDirector: Ms. Jatta Erlundwww.afs.fi

FranceAFS Vivre Sans Frontière - VSFChair: Mrs. Anne CollignonDirector: Mr. Philippe Peccatierwww.afs-fr.org

GermanyAFS InterkulturelleBegegnungen E.V.Chair: Mr. Patrick UlmerDirector: Mr. Mick Petersmannwww.afs.de

GhanaIntercultural ExchangePrograms, GhanaChair: Mr. Philip AddisonDirector: Mr. Kwame Otcherewww.afs.org/ghana

GuatemalaAFS Guatemala: Fundación Intercultural y Educativa Chair: Ms. Cecilia VasquezDirector: Mr. Guillermo Montoyawww.afs.org.gt

HondurasAFS HondurasChair: Mrs. Reina CastilloDirector: Ms. Belkis Lópezwww.afs.hn

Hong KongAFS Intercultural ExchangesChair: Mr. Nicholas R. Sallnow-SmithDirector: Ms. Theresa Leungwww.afs.hk

HungaryAFS MagyarországChair: Mr. Balázs SabathielDirector: Ms. Anett Mikloswww.afs.hu

IcelandAFS á IslandiChair: Mr. Kristján GíslasonDirector: Ms. EyrunEythorsdottirwww.afs.is

IndiaAFS IndiaChair: Mrs. Angela RoyeDirector: Mrs. Divya Arorawww.afs.org.in

IndonesiaBina AntarbudayaChairs: Mr. Kartono Muhamadand Mr. Taufiq IsmailDirector: Mr. Ridwan Dereindawww.bina-antarbudaya.net

ItalyInterculturaChair: Mr. Sandro TomassiniDirector: Dr. Vincenzo Morliniwww.intercultura.it

JapanAFS Japan Association, Inc.Chair: Mr. Gotaro OgawaDirector: Mr. Yuzo Takadawww.afs.or.jp

LatviaAFS LatviaChair: Mr. Andrejs KovalovsDirector: Mrs. Patricija Silinawww.afs.lv

MalaysiaAntarabudaya Malaysia - ABMChair: Dr. Yahya Mat HassanDirector: Ms. Atty Sulaimanwww.afs.org.my

MexicoAFS Intercultura Mexico, A.C.Chair: Mrs. Maria Elena RomeroDirector: Mrs. Claudia Gómezwww.afs.org.mx

NetherlandsAFS NederlandChair: Mr. Ben BongersDirector: Mr. Richard Santallawww.afs.nl

New ZealandAFS New ZealandChair: Ms. Rachel MurrayDirector: Ms. Doris Cuthellwww.afs.org.nz

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NorwayAFS Norge InternasjonalUtvekslingChair: Ms. Monica HatleDirector: Ms. Kristin Heinrichwww.afs.no

PanamaAFS ProgramasInterculturales-PanamáChair: Mrs. Milda de GonzalezDirector: Mr. Plinio Benavideswww.afs.org.pa

ParaguayAFS ParaguayChair: Ms. Amelia CaceresDirector: Mrs. Victoria Villalbawww.afs.org.py

PeruAFS del Perú ProgramasInterculturalesChair: Mr. Omar RamirezDirector: Ms. Lisbeth Sanchezwww.afs.org.pe

PhilippinesAFS Returnees Foundation

Philippines Inc. (ARFP)

Chair: Mrs. Rahiema Guerra

Director: Raymund Zamorawww.afs.ph

PortugalIntercultura - AFS Portugal

Chair: Ms. Filipa Santos

Director: Ms. Ana Fachada

www.intercultura-afs.pt

RussiaIntercultura Foundation

Chair: Mr. Aleksandr Galitskikh

Director: Mrs. Nonna

Kovrizhnykh

www.afs.ru

South AfricaAFS Interculture South Africa

Chair: Mr. Bongani Khumalo

Director: Mr. Theo Ripplinger

www.afs.org.za

SpainAFS Intercultura EspañaChair: Mr. Gerardo GomezCrespoInterim Director: Marcel Krausewww.afs-intercultura.org

SwedenAFS Interkulturell UtbildningChair: Mr. Anders FernlundDirector: Ms. Marit Gronskeiwww.afs.se

SwitzerlandAFS InterculturalPrograms SwitzerlandChair: Mr. Jürg RüttimannDirector: Dr. Sabine Siegristwww.afs.ch

ThailandAFS InterculturalPrograms ThailandChair: Mr. Sanan AngubolkulDirector: Mr. Apithai Buranasiriwww.afsthailand.org

TunisiaAFS TunisieChair: Mrs. Bochra Malkiwww.afs-tunisia.org.tn

TurkeyAFS Türk Kültür Vakfi - TKVChair: Mr. Sinan CilesizDirector: Ms. Fatma Akgünwww.tkvafs.org

United States of AmericaAFS InterculturalPrograms/USAChair: Mr. Mike ShermanInterim President: Mr. Jorge Castrowww.afsusa.org

VenezuelaAFS ProgramasInterculturales VenezuelaChair: Mrs. Margarita deVásquezDirector: Ms. Lourdes Alvarezwww.afs.org.ve

AFS Organizations and Programs

AFS Partner Program Activity in Other CountriesFuture Programs

AFS Offices

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