We create Global Citizens
Develop your global skills
Friends of AFS in Australia (FAFSA) is a values driven intercultural learning organisation.
We offer programs that empower Australians across all generations and walks of life
to build global competence and to become global citizens.
About FAFSA
We are a volunteer led and managed not-for- profit association offering teens and adults from all over Australia the opportunity to develop their global skills for the 21st century world -
at school, at work or at home.
​
Our expertise is founded on more than 60 years of intercultural learning and global competence in Australia, while we deliver programs to build
a better future today.
Global skills for the 21st century
We create lifelong connections
Volunteers
Support our goals
Australians of all generations experience the reward of volunteering their time to support others to develop global competence.
Our work offers opportunities for people interested in intercultural learning to join teams that support the delivery of our programs and foster our participants' journey in developing their global skills.
​
Explore our volunteer opportunities.
​
Members
Are you an AFSer?
For more than 60 years, Australians participated in programs delivered by AFS Australia and around the world.
Through this, an empowered community of people have taken their global competence into their family life, employment and communities, touching the lives of all they meet.
​
Reconnect or become a FAFSA member.
Partner with us
Work with us
FAFSA’s purpose is driven by partnership, empowering learning about the world, your own and other cultures and promoting positive change in the world through the development of global skills for the 21st century in individuals, groups and organisations.
​
We invite partnership with
like-minded organisations that are seeking to develop their teams, and strive to create a better world through global competence.
Subscribe to our news
Our Acknowledgement
Friends of AFS in Australia (FAFSA) welcomes participants, members and volunteers from diverse backgrounds
across our country.
​
We acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of Country throughout Australia and acknowledge their continuing connection to land, water and community. We pay our respects to the people, the cultures and the elders
past, present and emerging.