Who we are

AFSAI is an organization born in 1958, to promote Educational Program for young people. In other words, “learning by doing” is for us the best way to know the world around us. We work in the field of intercultural education and are active with both long and short-term youth and students exchanges. We operates in both European and non-European partners. Our structure is based on the voluntary work of its members. The majority of them are young people who have participated in one of the programs we propose. The local chapters co-operate with the National Co-ordination Office in Rome.

Educational Program

The majority of the activities promoted by AFSAI refer to three main areas:

Participants to the Educational Program in our activities are usually young people involved in AFSAI at local level. So far, we have mostly worked with students, unemployed, people with disabilities, youth workers and young people living in disadvantaged areas.

One of the aims of the exchange activities organized by AFSAI is to offer participants the opportunity to have a real experience. For instancewe consider important that participants live in a multicultural atmosphere. They have the possibility to see the main aspects of their own culture, sharing all kind of information and experiences. This will help them, for sure, in their personal development in the future. We also believe in the importance of the multiplying effect that every activity has in the sense of involving new young people in other youth activities.

AFSAI IN THE WORLD

AFSAI, for its Educational Program for young people, co-operates with many and diverse organizations and foreign agencies, most of which have international character.

Above all, we are trying to develop their partnership links so that we can organize our activities and programs with other organizations in other countries with which we have never co-operated before.