Being an Exchange Student Host Family can bring a new perspective to your life. Having someone from another country stay in your home can be a real eye-opener for kids and parents alike. Suddenly you will become more aware of your community and surroundings as your introduce it to somebody that have never experienced it.

• Allow your family to experience a new member's culture and customs first hand.
• Teach your family to share its love and kindness with others.
• Provide your sons/daughters a unique advantage and experience to refer to on applications for employment, college and universities.
• Enrich and enlarge your community.
• Allow your Family members to visit their new family member experience their culture and customs first hand.
• Make "friends for life" in another country.

The following are the requirements for hosting a student:

• Have an understanding of the responsibilities involved.
• Have two or more host family members, married or related by blood (single people may host with approval from natural family).
• Host parents must be a minimum of 25 years of age.
• Provide the exchange students with a bed and a place to study.
• An exchange student may not share a bed. An exchange student may share a room, but only with a host sibling of the same gender who is within five years of the student's age.
• Provide breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for the exchange student.
• Be financially secure and able to assume the costs of hosting a teenager.
• Provide transportation for the student to and from school

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