Youth

AFS International is one of the world's most experienced and largest non-profit providers of youth exchange and intercultural learning. Originally founded by volunteer ambulance drivers, the American Field Service has grown over the past 70 years into a global community with over 60 country organisations and partners.In addition to school exchanges and volunteer service, we also offer our volunteers a wide range of education and training. We also offer workshops in schools on the topics of racism, sustainability and intercultural learning.

Challenges dominant stereotypes and commonly held perceptions of developing countries which are prevalent in our society. It aims to use education as a means of challenging the causes of poverty and inequality in both local and global contexts by working with all sectors of education. This organization runs serveral projects in the area of development education; i.e. a Development Education magazine, a website on Global Citizenship for the Northern Irish curriculum, Community Youth Projects in Belfast. Furthermore, the Centre provides a well-assorted resource library including teaching materials, books on development issues and box files on countries and topics to support students, teachers and lecturers with their work.

We are a publishing house consisting of teachers publishing for teachers with the objective of helping with problems concerning school and youth work, e.g.:

• Implementing curricula into everyday teaching. With concise and well organised material for further education, practical experience and training in methodology, we hope to provide complementary information     that is not covered by traditional school-books
• Excessive workload: By providing school material that can be implemented instantly, we try to make sure teaching and engaging in youth work remains feasible
• Problems affecting schools from the outside, like violence or lack of prospects

We develop feasible concepts for the benefit of all those involved.

SOS Faim is a development NGO recognised by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Luxembourg. SOS Faim supports peasants organizations and microfinance institutions in Africa. SOS Faim also leads awareness
campaigns in Luxembourg.