[Mdpobc] Malaysian Exchange Student

[Kyle Richmond]

David:
The Calverton School in Prince Frederick, Maryland has a large international student exchange program.  This is a private high school in Maryland.  I don't know if they would take a blind student but it might be worth asking.  However, if she is also working in Washington DC at the state dept., this school's location is about 1 1/2 hours from the State Dept.  Just a thought.
Jill Richmond

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: David Andrews 
  To: david.andrews at nfbnet.org 
  Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:26 PM
  Subject: [Mdpobc] Malaysian Exchange Student



    Hi David,
    I hope you can help me with some info about your NFB group and whether you might be able to help us to find a home for an exchange student, who is hoping to come to the USA on a Dept of State scholarship in Jan and stay through June. We have been searching unsuccessfully since Oct to find her a host family in a place where the school will accept her. This is made more difficult by the fact that she is blind. Although the school will be reimbursed for any extra cost the schools unfortunately are allowed to turn down students on J-1 visa's. I'm hoping that you might know of schools, anywhere in the country, that would welcome an international student that is blind and maybe a family that has a blind student of their own willing to enrich their lives by hosting her. We have tried and have run out of ideas for finding her a family and I found your website and thought maybe, just maybe, you could help us spread the word and find this girl a spot. Since schools will be closed for hte holidays very soon and she arrives in very early Jan. time is of the essence.
    Thanks for any help you might offer and I'm sorry I didn't try searching support for the blind sooner.
    I attached some info on her that you ca forward and I copied the staff of AFS who are also working on this. The website below has info about AFS Intercultural programs and what we do.
     
    Robbin Lang
    AFS Northern Illinois Team
    Volunteer Hosting Coordinator
    630-879-3851 Home 630-346-4320 cell
    robbinlang at ameritech.net
    Meet More Students by entering your zip code: www.afsusa.org/host-family









------------------------------------------------------------------------------


  _______________________________________________
  Mdpobc mailing list
  Mdpobc at nfbnet.org
  http://nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/mdpobc_nfbnet.org
  To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for Mdpobc:
  http://nfbnet.org/mailman/options/mdpobc_nfbnet.org/kyle.richmond2009%40comcast.net
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://nfbnet.org/pipermail/mdpobc_nfbnet.org/attachments/20131219/72dfe096/attachment.html>