“When I get back to Peru, my life will be another reality. I’m going back with new beliefs and goals for success; and pleased of having gone through such an experience. I will apply all this with my family and friends. I’m going to be a volunteer for AFS in my city.”
Carlos Payahua, Diversity Scholarship Winner, Peru to Latvia, 2004
“Volunteerism has become a way of life for me and I have been persuading friends ever since that one could gain a great pleasure from furthering the good of another human being.”
Siti Khatija Hassan, 1997 Galatti Award winner and AFS volunteer since 1983
“I am a very strong believer that we have to know each other to get peace and get together to make an effort to create peace. This inspiration that makes me and my family work as AFS volunteers is also what makes me get involved in the peace process in my country.”
Miguel Oswaldo Rosales, 1996 Galatti Award winner with AFS since 1967
“We are the best program of its kind. We have built up over 15 years a volunteer backing that is almost unbelievable. Volunteer workers in sixty countries again attest to the belief in this program. This we have built in 15 years, surely a record you can face anyone with, and with its potential for the future as AFS graduates 4,000 students yearly and almost 4,000 new families yearly… You cannot help feeling that AFS is on the way to really accomplishing its mission.”
Stephen Galatti, Founding President of AFS, Quoted from AFS’ 1964 Annual Report
“I believe in the world peace and hospitality that is promoted by the AFS circle. Without AFS I would not be here today and I wouldn’t have the friends across the world I’ve got. That is really a marvelous opportunity.”
Volunteer from New Zealand
