Study abroad and travel

Listed here are resources for you to use to find ways to travel inexpensively and purposefully. These exchanges will broaden your horizons and give you the opportunity to meet students and teachers from around the world:

• Scholarship to study in Cambodia: http://www.asiapacificedcrossings.org/students/american-youth-leadership-program-with-cambodia/

• NSLI-Y: Scholarships for exchanges in several countries: http://exchanges.state.gov/youth/programs/nsli.html

• Study in Germany: http://www.usagermanyscholarship.org/

• German student exchange: http://www.goethe.de/ins/us/lp/prj/gapp/enindex.htm?wt_sc=gapp

• International Programs- Many listed- Youth leadership toward the bottom are short term and most are covered by scholarships: http://exchanges.state.gov/youth/programs/ylp/current-youth-leaderships-programs.html

• Global Potential- Low cost world travel with community service component: http://global-potential.org/home/

The National Security Language Initiative for Youth (NSLI-Y) offers merit-based scholarships to U. S. high-school aged students for overseas study of seven critical foreign languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Hindi, Korean, Persian (Tajik), Russian and Turkish. The NSLI-Y program is designed to immerse participants in the cultural life of the host country, giving them invaluable formal and informal language practice and sparking a lifetime interest in foreign languages and cultures.

The Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad Program offers scholarships to American high school students to spend the 2013-14 academic year in countries that may include Bosnia & Herzegovina, Egypt, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Mali (semester), Morocco, Oman, South Africa, Thailand, Tunisia, and Turkey. This post 9/11 program focuses on increasing understanding between people in the U.S. and countries with significant Muslim populations.

The Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program (CBYX) was established in 1983 to celebrate German-American friendship based on common values of democracy. Secondary school students live with host families, attend local schools, and participate in community life in Germany. Young professionals (undergraduates) and high school graduates of vocational studies ages 18-24 study and participate in practical training.

The American Youth Leadership Program offers opportunities for American high students and educators to travel abroad on a three- to four-week-long exchange program to gain first-hand knowledge of foreign cultures and to collaborate on solving global issues. Several different organizations implement this program, and each has organized an academic and experiential educational exchange focused on dialogue and debate, leadership development, and community service.

David L. Boren Scholarships and Fellowships provide unique funding opportunities for U.S. undergraduate and graduate students to study in Africa, Asia, Central & Eastern Europe, Eurasia, Latin America, and the Middle East, where they can add important international and language components to their educations.

The Benjamin Gilman International Scholarship is a scholarship for American undergraduates to study abroad. The scholarship provides grants for students with limited financial means to pursue international study. It is funded by the International Academic Opportunity Act, passed in 2000, and sponsored by the US State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Over 10,000 alumni of the program have studied in more than 120 countries around the world.

- See more at: http://www.actfl.org/professional-development/scholarships-and-grants?pageid=3309#sthash.2BQYazVS.dpuf

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