Host an Afghan Student
SOLA relies on dedicated and carefully screened host families for SOLA students studying abroad.
Students are integrated into their host families' daily lives, learning from people they — and SOLA — trust and respect. |
All students studying abroad are assigned a guardian to help them navigate their new country and education system, and to provide a home-away-from-home over long weekends or holidays. Where geography allows, guardians naturally evolve from e-mentor relationships. Guardian-student relationships are enriching and create lifelong bonds.
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Host families are different...
I have a lot of friends, but a family is different.
With a family nearby, you can:
1) Share what you are doing every day, and ask their ideas
2) Do a lot of fun activities together around the house
3) Ask them about the things that you don’t know
4) Forget to feel homesick a lot
5) Go shopping with them (my favorite activity)
All I can say is, a host family is like a real family to me.
With a family nearby, you can:
1) Share what you are doing every day, and ask their ideas
2) Do a lot of fun activities together around the house
3) Ask them about the things that you don’t know
4) Forget to feel homesick a lot
5) Go shopping with them (my favorite activity)
All I can say is, a host family is like a real family to me.
— Abdul Sattar Amiri, Kent School, Kent CT (10/12)
SOLA's development team is on hand to help host families and guardians with pitfalls and challenges. A mailing list connects host families around the globe, creating a support network and a mechanism for confidentially exchanging lessons learned.
