Sharing the True American with the World
ASA International believes that opening doors through cross-cultural understanding will promote peace and understanding throughout the World. By hosting an International student, you will enrich your life and the life of others around you. Your family will make relationships that will last a lifetime. HELP create a worldwide family by embracing your new son or daughter with an open heart and a caring family.
(PRWEB) July 24, 2004 -- WHERE'S the WORLD HEADED?
The answers may be
more up to you than you think. Now more than ever, America needs families like
yours to host exchange students. Foreign exchange is the best way to make
diplomacy more effective against the poisonous image of the United States that
is deliberately propagated around the world. You will offer your selected
student a first hand experience of the true American life, including family,
church, culture, recreation, community and much more.
What you may not
know, and what these hosting families are too modest to tell you, is that,
behind closed doors, they are striving to make a difference, one friendship at a
time. By sharing their daily lives, their affection, and their food on the table
- one by one, they are answering the call to become true “ambassadors of
American lives.”
Perhaps you’ve met them at church, at school events,
read about them in the local newspaper, the PTA, or at the office where you
work. Maybe they live in that house down the street, the one that always seems a
bit too crammed full of kids. You wonder if these nice folks are just a little
bit crazy to take someone else’s child and a teenager from across the world, no
less.
There is no such thing as a ‘typical host family.’ A warm,
successful student/family bond does not depend on whether there are same ages
children present in the home. In fact, it is not uncommon for young families,
childless couples, empty nesters and retirees, to embrace the opportunity to
share their lives.
Financial support is relativity insignificant, though
most host families will enjoy “providing the extras.” Students arrive with their
own spending money and full health insurance. The host family’s contributes room
and board, and welcomes the student as a member of their family for a semester
or full academic year.
For the 2004-2005 school years, ASA International,
a highly regarded non-profit high school exchange student organization based in
Indiana, will welcome many high school age teenagers to the U.S. Its central
mission is to promote global peace and understanding, by “Sharing the True
America with the World”. ASA International believes that when Americans embrace
the world’s youth, we invite a more promising future for all of humanity to
share.
Please join us in opening doors for peace and understanding thru
youth as we “Share the True American with the World.” ASA International is a
non-profit program. Please join us as we open doors to the true American by
calling 877-562-7135 or visit our website.
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/7/prweb143574.htm