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<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>David:<BR>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.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Jill Richmond</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dandrews@visi.com href="mailto:dandrews@visi.com">David Andrews</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=david.andrews@nfbnet.org
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, December 19, 2013 2:26
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [Mdpobc] Malaysian Exchange
Student</DIV>
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<BLOCKQUOTE class=cite cite="" type="cite"><BR>Hi David,<BR>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.<BR>Thanks for any help you might offer and I'm sorry I didn't try
searching support for the blind sooner.<BR>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.<BR> <BR>Robbin Lang<BR>AFS Northern Illinois Team<BR>Volunteer
Hosting Coordinator<BR>630-879-3851 Home 630-346-4320
cell<BR>robbinlang@ameritech.net<BR>Meet More Students by entering your zip
code: <A href="http://www.afsusa.org/host-family"
eudora="autourl">www.afsusa.org/host-family</A><BR><BR>
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