Peachtree City resident Bob Comeau, a local representative of the World Heritage Student Exchange Program, is looking for families interested in hosting high school students from other countries.
“The students love being placed in Georgia,” Comeau said of the teens he has helped locate here. “I have quite a group of successful exchange students currently in Fayette and Coweta counties with a few of them receiving awards and honors –outstanding examples of youth.”
The World Heritage Student Exchange Programs is a non-profit organization hoping to place high school boys and girls from Scandinavia, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Thailand, China, South Korea and the former Soviet Republics.
Host families provide room, board, and guidance for a foreign teenager living thousands of miles from home. Couples, single parents, and families with or without children living at home are all encouraged to apply.
Exchange students arrive from their home countries before the 2015-16 school year begins and bring their own spending money. The students expect to share their part of the household responsibilities as well as be included in normal family activities and lifestyles. Each World Heritage student is fully insured.
Those interested in sharing their home and family life with a young person from abroad, can contact Comeau at either 978-204-3953 or 1-866-277-2799 (toll-free). More information about the organization can be found on its website at http://www.whhosts.com/.
