In our receiving programme, host families in South Africa open their homes to foreign pupils and give them an opportunity to become fully integrated into the family. The exchange experience offers emotional and educational growth, whether taking part as an exchange pupil or as a host family. Being part of each other's everyday life contributes towards this process. Intercultural relations start at home, and taking a foreign pupil into your inner circle will be an enriching experience.
Families provide pupils with adequate room and board.
As a non-profit organisation, YFU cannot pay host families for this. Exchange pupils pay for their own clothes, leisure activities and hobbies they wish to pursue in the host country as well as transport to and from school. They are fully insured. Exchange pupils are obliged to attend a senior secondary school of any South African language during their stay in South Africa. The host family indicates the school and YFU organises the placement with the school and matters relating to possible school fees.