My Nonprofit Reviews

I was an AFS myself many many years ago and I loved the experience. I promised that one day I was going to host students to pay back what someone did for me. When I became an adult and got married and three kids, my wife agreed that we could host. We hosted 4 AFS students and had a great experience with three of them. The irst one was from Italy and he was a great boyl the second one was from Germany and he was a bad kid who I don't know how he was chosen to be an exchange student, he drank a whole bottle of vodka and was sent back home. AFS handled this situation terribly which I won't go in detial. The third boy was from Turkey and he was a nice kid too, the fourth one was from Germany and he was the best, super nice. After those four boys, AFS continued pestering us to host more and we decide to host a kid from Norway and AFS asked us if we could host two kids at the same time. Since are own kids were grown, we had plenty of space and agreed to add a kid from Germany. That's when the nightmare started. The German boy jealous of the other boy from Norway, and because he didn't like me because of my hispanic background came up with a horrible lie saying that he felt uncomfortable around me. He wanted to leave and he got it but AFS removed both from the house and believe the lies rather than investigate and resolve the issue without conflicts. The Norwegian boy was very angry because he had to leave too. The situation escalated very bad as the boy made up horrible stories that had to be proved in court. AFS was never on our side and they were "protecting the AFS student, which I understand except that left us alone with no support and that's when I realized that AFS uses the families to make money as they charge the kids Money for the exchange but we as host families provide everything for the kids. They used us for many years and I do not have any respect for AFS anymore. I would not recommend any family to host with this organization. Last year we hosted a kid from Australia and the organization is called International Student Exchange (ISE) and we had a great experience again. They are not money makers as AFS is. So I would recommend them over AFS.