There are many reasons for becoming a host family and many benefits to be gained from hosting a YFU exchange student:
- Learn about another culture without leaving home
- Get a deep and personal insight into another culture
- Develop lifelong friendships with another family overseas
- Experience an exchange before sending your son or daughter on exchange
- Help your family to see different ways of living and thinking
- Help your children better understand our increasingly globalized, interdependent world
- Give a young person the opportunity to experience our rich and diverse South African culture
- Become an cultural embassador for South Africa
- Learn how to overcome cultural differences and challenges
- Get a deeper understanding of your own culture, family, beliefs and behaviours
- Help your family members to develop intercultural skills, tolerance and mutual respect
- And finally, you will gain a new friend and family member for life.
To learn more about our host family programme, visit our Facebook and Instagram pages, or contact us via email or WhatsApp!