There are a wide variety of ways you can continue your AFS experience through volunteering with AFS that require different skills and requires varying amounts of time. You’ve been through a life-changing experience, and by remaining connected to AFS through volunteering, the impact of your year, semester, or summer will be multiplied many times over.

You will be helping others to experience AFS, and you'll have a chance to:

• Strengthen your resume through leadership, communication, counseling, creative salesmanship, journalism, and/or public relations;

• Build contacts within your community with senior school administrators and other community leaders;

• Network with other returnees. As you share experiences, you'll make new friends and professional contacts.

AFS has a number of volunteer opportunities that meet the needs and interests of today’s busy AFS'ers. For example, we know that the best qualified people to recruit AFSers are AFS returnees, and you could be helping tremendously by doing as little as one school presentation about your AFS experience. The following are a few more examples of interesting and challenging ways in which you can get involved with other volunteers in your area:

• Assist with an orientation
• Be a liaison to an international student
• Interview host families or Americans abroad candidates
• Represent AFS at a community booth
• Share your knowledge about culture and international issues