ASSE International Student Exchange

Why host an International Exchange Student? Hosting an international student is a positive, life-changing experience. You will learn about another culture and your own through the eyes of a teenager from another country. The relationship you form with your student will create a life-long friendship and bridge different nations, fostering international understanding and a stronger more peaceful world. Students live with a volunteer host family for 5 or 10 months while attending high school. All students bring their own spending money and are fully insured, so the investment for host families is minimal. Families provide a bedroom (this can be shared with a similar aged sibling) and meals to their host child; in return gaining a cross-cultural experience and lasting gratitude of a young person and their family from overseas. Who are our students and host families? Host families select a host son or daughter based on student profiles which include a photo collage and personal essay. You do not have to have children of your own to host, just be open to providing a welcoming and loving home. ASSE does not discriminate on the basis of age, ethnic background, race, sexual orientation or religious affiliation. Here is a link to a video of an ASSE family: www.host.asse.com/videos/0E8x0SF6H_0/ Begin your life long friendship Today For more info please reply to this email or call 616-560-2893 or email teresa@asse.com You can also check out www.host.asse.com to see more student and host family videos, read student profiles and apply for our program.

ASSE?s mission is to foster international understanding through educational and cross cultural programs.