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Youth for Understanding (YFU)

Share your home, change the world.

YFU is a non-profit educational organization which offers opportunities for young people around the world to spend a summer, semester or year with a host family in another culture. Every semester, KRC finds host families for students from another country, so that they can experience life in Alaska. Hosting a YFU international exchange student is an enriching experience for a host family. Host families an gain a new global perspective, many memories, and possibly a new family member for life.

Change your life, change your world.

The YFU study abroad program is an experience that will immerse students in the lives, culture and community of a family on the Peninsula. The YFU experience is a learning adventure. It offers students the opportunity to:

  • Get a global perspective 
  • Interact with people from different cultures 
  • Gain fluency in a new language 
  • Enhance their global career possibilities 
  • Forge lifelong friendships 

For more information on the YFU program, contact Diane Taylor in the KRC Learning Center. 

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