Host Foreign Exchange Student
Listed on 2025-12-31
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Education / Teaching
Bilingual
Host a Foreign Exchange Student!
Education Travel & Culture provides inbound program opportunities for high school students worldwide to study in an American high school and live with an American family. ETC's outbound program offers students the chance to study and live in a foreign country. Education Travel & Culture is a unique, personalized organization whose first goal is to provide exceptional support for both students and host families through a network of local coordinators and dedicated office staff.
Earn the Presidential Volunteer Service Award by hosting a foreign exchange student! You can earn up to 25 hours per week. This award looks great on college applications and job resumes.
ETC works with the U.S. Department of State to find homes for foreign exchange students coming to the USA on a J‑1 visa. We have students arriving from 15 different countries, ages 14‑18, who are looking for an American family to share this once‑in‑a‑lifetime experience with.
Responsibilities- Ensure a safe and nurturing home environment for the student
- Provide the student with a private room that can be shared with a similar‑aged host sibling and a bed
- Serve 3 meals per day
- Arrange transportation to and from school and for extracurricular activities
- Give love and support to the student
- Accept families with or without children
- Bring their own spending money and health insurance
- Have good English skills
- Are highly screened for the program
- Excited to meet their American family!
- Learn a new culture by tasting new foods, listening to new music, and speaking a new language
- Share your culture with an exchange student
- Add another member to your family
- Help an exchange student receive an American education and the experience of a lifetime!
"Our exchange student has been such a blessing in our lives. We had no idea we were missing anything until she came into our lives. Having a host daughter has made us laugh harder than we ever have before. It’s been so special to see my kids love her, bond with her, and my daughter’s closest confidant in a time of her life.
She has become not just a daughter to me, but my friend."
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