Cultural Homestay International (CHI) has welcomed its first J-1 participant from Cuba. Luis Chavez is participating in CHI’s Camp Leaders programme. CHI’s administrator, Ivy Cohen, picked him up from New York’s JFK Airport on June 17. Luis will be sharing his...
Abacus Study Abroad is an educational counselling agency, located in the heart of Istanbul since 2014. They represent several cultural exchange programs, work and travel, internship, summer school, language school and university programs, group...
Michael McCarry is a Senior Advisor for CENET Cultural Exchange Network and the former Executive Director of the Alliance for International Exchange. He is a leader within the exchange community with more than 37 years international experience. In 2015, McCarry was...
The Trump administration has proposed cuts in FY18 of 28 percent to the State Department, with much deeper cuts likely to the Bureau for Educational and Cultural Affairs, and a significant narrowing of the types of exchange programs our country supports. If enacted...
We’ve interviewed Denis Smorchkov, General Manager of TravelWorks, who after starting a successful outbound Youth and Student travel company, he decided to offer similar work-experience opportunities by bringing students to Russia: Tell us your story. How did...
On Friday the 27th of January, the world watched in disbelief as President Trump took his first step towards retracting the United States from globalism by signing an executive order denying nationals of Iraq, Syria, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia and Yemen travel...
