Hosting a YFU exchange student

Are you expecting in August and you just didn't know it--yet? 

Eighty Oakland County families including six families in Novi kindly rolled out the welcome mat to YFU exchange students in the academic year just completed.  Can you enjoy this opportunity for 2013-2014?

Youth for Understanding is a non-profit, volunteer-based organization which has been placing exchange students for 62 years.  Right now, YFU is looking for some welcoming families to host exchange students for the 2013-2014 school year.  Here are just a few of the teens coming to Oakland County in August (until the following June).  Families provide a place to live and meals, plus encouragement, guidance, love and limits.  The students pay for their other expenses and become a true family member sharing in the real life fun and responsibilities of the family. 

Call Barb Kilkka at 248-932-0811 (Kilkka@yfu.org) to ask for more details on these boys and girls.  All kinds of families host from all ethnic and educational backgrounds, different family configurations with and without children at home.  Elementary and middle school host siblings are among the greatest beneficiaries of the program.   Here are just some of the kids headed to Oakland County homes.  Maybe yours?

• Reiha from Japan loves ballet and is intrigued by cheerleading.  Enjoy her  enthusiasm!
• Anton from Kazakhstan adores animals and hopes to have a zoo someday.  Let him be part of your “zoo!”
• Brita from Norway is an active sporty girl from above the Arctic Circle where her father is a reindeer herder.
• Nis is a German boy who loves soccer and other sports.
• Raditya is an Indonesian girl who won a prestigious scholarship and enjoys debate and writing.
• Joon-Youb from Korea is a musician (guitar, tuba, trumpet, etc.) and has been a Catholic altar boy.
• Sayuri from Japan loves singing and dancing.
• Stefanie from Germany enjoys recreational sports such as tennis.
• PLUS more (from 60 countries)!

Call Barb Kilkka at 248-932-0811, Kilkka@yfu.org for information about hosting and for detailed profiles and letters of these boys and girls or to receive the list of other students available.  Interested families can also fill out an online application at www.yfu-usa.org.

Plus American teens interested in becoming a YFU exchange student for a summer, semester, academic year, or gap year can also seek information on the website or by calling 1-800-TEENAGE