AFS welcomes three new exchange students to Sitka with community potluck this weekend
Three new exchange students through the AFS program arrived in Sitka last week and will be spending the next year as part of the community
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AFS recruiting host families for the ’21-’22 school year in Sitka
After a year's break due to the pandemic, Sitka will be hosting four international high school students next year. Connie Kreiss and Erika Knox explain how to become involved.
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From Egypt to Sitka, in search of the Northern Lights
Sitka hosts several students every year through the AFS program. One of them is 17-year-old Omar Kamal Ali, an exchange student from Egypt. Omar sat down with his local liaison Peter Apathy to talk about his home thousands of miles away and the one’s he’s fostering here in Sitka.
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On exchange: AFS students tell their stories
What is it like to lose a loved one to a bombing? Or to leave the Gaza Strip for the first time? How about harboring a major crush on a British pop band in Indonesia or reckoning American stereotypes about your home country Tanzania? Four exchange students wrote personal essays about that for Raven Radio this year.Read More
Namrita Kumari: Shining a bright light on Pakistan
"When parents send their children to school in Pakistan, they pray for them to come home safely and alive. But, instead of supporting the suffering ones, the world blames Pakistanis and calls them terrorists?"
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