Contact Information

To request a study abroad catalogue, for information on hosting or volunteering with AFS, or to learn more about how you can have AFS make an “It’s Your World” intercultural education presentation in your school, email, call 1-800-AFS-INFO, or visit our website.

Tof find out more information about the Chicago area, please email us.

Your Local Volunteers

There are more than 110 registered volunteers who are part of the Greater Chicago Area Team. These volunteers perform many essential functions that include but are not limited to interviewing perspective students/families, being a host family/student liason, transporting students, working at arrival, orientation, and midyear camps, recruiting students and families. If you would like to find out more informations about volunteering in the Chicago area, please contact us.

Area Team Chair	Linda Liddle
Volunteer Coordinator	Barb Kelly
Sending Coordinator	Chris Austermann
Hosting Coordinator	Deb Heer
Scholarship Chair	Margaret Votava
Cluster Coordinator - CB, FLEX, YES	Murray Johnson
Chapter Chair - City of Chicago	Emily Grimes/Linda Mellis
Chapter Chair - Central DuPage	Arnette Schultz
Chapter Chair - Oak Park/Riverforest	Deb Heer
Chapter Chair - LaGrange, Western Springs, Hinsdale	Murray Johnson
Chapter Chair - South Suburbs	Barb Kelly
Chapter Chair - Far North	Rosie Hollinger
Chapter Chair - Bolingbrook/Darian	Linda Liddle
Webmaster	Margaret Votava

For Local Volunteers

If you are a registered local volunteer, please subscribe to our volunteer google group.

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For 60 years, AFS Intercultural Programs has been leading international high school student exchange. AFS was founded by volunteer American Field Service ambulance drivers from World Wars I and II who believed — as AFS believes today — that the way to build a more just and peaceful world begins when people from different countries meet, learn about each other, and begin to understand each other. AFS is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and is largely a volunteer-driven organization, with more than 5,500 U.S. volunteers and 30,000 worldwide.