AFS Intercultural Programs is an international, voluntary, non-governmental, non-profit organisation that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help people develop the knowledge, skills and understanding needed to create a more just and peaceful world.

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

We are recognised as an educational organisation by schools and the appropriate authorities. We work to create a regulatory environment that supports our programs.

As a learning organisation, we welcome change and critical thinking. We are innovative and entrepreneurial in advancing the strategic directions, working together with others whenever appropriate.

Since the founding of AFS in 1915, our vision has been worldwide peace and our mission to bring it forth through intercultural learning, building bridges so to speak. All for the sake of it being easy to dislike something you do not understand.