How does AFS provide for my safety and security abroad?
FS is an experienced, worldwide leader in high school student exchange that has an exemplary safety record for 60 years. Our primary operating value is concern for the welfare, safety, and security of our student participants. AFS has a professional network of experienced staff and volunteers who provide support in each country. An AFS Situation Response Management Team is in place at all times to monitor events throughout the world and respond in case of crisis. While some AFS programs are curtailed at particular times, AFS has run programs throughout the world, without interruption, since it was founded in 1947.
