AFS Changemaker…Through Song!
AFS aims to empower young people with the passion for making a difference…and one such changemaker did just that with a catchy new song to celebrate Aidil Fitri! Zamaera al-Edros…
News & Events
Changemaker in Special Education
One of AFS’ objectives is to create changemakers who can make a difference wherever they are in the world. Muhammad Fazri Hassan is one such person. The award-winning special education…
Volunteering to Vaccinate Malaysians
By Seervina Kaur Virk (YES’15) Three AFS returnees and three YES alumni volunteered to join the MyVAC initiative to help mobilize the vaccination program for Malaysians. The Kuala Lumpur World…
Volunteer Speaker Series: First Steps in the Right Direction
By Jedida Ravindran I can come up with a host of reasons as to why I know very little about the Malaysian political system. Having chosen to remain largely apolitical,…
Immersed in Tradition and Innovation: My Student Exchange Experience in Japan
My name is Elly, a 19-year-old girl from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. I am one of the the Asia Kakehashi Project 2020 participants. I went to Hakodate, Hokkaido. It is Hokkaido’s third…
Engage To Exchange – the New Normal of AFS Roadshows
By Annie Yap With the Covid-19 pandemic ravaging not just the country but also the world, a New Normal had to be adopted in the way we go about with…
Donation Drive for Global You program
AFS has been running in-person intercultural learning exchange programs since 1958. However, in 2020, we had to suspend all our physical programs due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This year too,…
APEC CEO Dialogues: Global Competence, the New Power Skill
(Content reposted from CEO Summit Journal, prepared for APEC 2019 convening) To discuss how companies, governments and education systems can work together to create the workforce of the future, a…
In Memorium
Some 18 months after China recorded its first death, more than 3.8 million people worldwide have lost their lives to Covid-19, a disease that has now touched every continent and…