Service Ambassadors: Building Hope while Experiencing the Real Ecuador

This summer, spend two weeks helping to build a much needed cultural/community center in rural Ecuador. Live and work with local families as you share in their culture and way of life. This is sure to be an unforgettable experience where you will make lasting relationships and treasured memories. 

Dates: Sept. 2011 - Aug. 2012

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Tour to the 2011 European Cultural Capitals: Turku & Tallinn

Nominated by the European Union (EU), Northern Europe is the home of the 2011 European Cultural Capitals, including Turku in Finland and Tallinn in Estonia. These cities invite you to attend their big Festivals this year. 

Dates: June 29-July 7

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2011 World Diversity Leadership Summit

Friendship Ambassadors Foundation, in partnership and support of the Foundation for the Support of the United Nations (FSUN), invites your NGO to participate in the 7th Annual World Diversity Leadership Summit in New York City. The Summit will gather Chief Diversity Officers, corporate executives, government/NGO leaders and policy makers from around the world to discuss diversity and inclusion challenges and opportunities for improving organizational performance.

Dates: September 6-8, 2011

Cultural Highlights: The Path of a Friend, Jordan – Palestine – Israel

Journey through lands that have sustained and nourished the lives of ancient and modern peoples, lands which gave birth to Abraham and his children. The path is an experience of the traveller who offers and receives in a way that inspires mutual respect and understanding across cultures.

Dates: October 15-28, 2011

9th Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations in NYC

Fully participate in all activities at the Annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations in New York City. Travel, network and engage with International Assembly delegates. Spend time with fellow global participants at the Youth Assembly’s official Manhattan accommodations. Utilize this once in a lifetime experience and the ins and outs of the Big Apple. 

Dates: August 2-7, 2011

MISSION: 
Friendship Ambassadors Foundation is a nonprofit, tax exempt organization that creates and leads transformative cultural exchanges, building friendships that advance mutual understanding and global peace.

WHAT WE DO: FAF organizes arts and, more broadly, cultural exchange projects in order to promote mutual understanding and global cooperation. Cultural exchange participants of all ages, in academic and diplomatic delegations, and as part of other dance, music, choral (choir), and cultural groups partake in real interaction during their travels. Hallmarks of successful FAF programs include cultural/performance tours, conference organization, homestays abroad, reconciliation and relief programs, special projects like our annual Youth Assembly at the United Nations, and other special group – and now, for the first time, individual – travel opportunities.

VISION: Friendship Ambassadors Foundation believes that cultural exchanges and concert performance tours abroad are special and meaningful ways for Americans to learn more about the rest of the world. Cultural gatherings of all kinds, especially dance, choral and instrumental music programs, transcend language barriers and enable a more basic, pure interaction to take place among those involved. Mutual understanding and global cooperation are encouraged by cultural exchange and essential for the education of youth – the leaders of the future – as well as to reconnect the leaders of today in ways beyond business, religion, and politics would permit. Furthermore, these programs can become valuable fund development and sustainable resource tools for the groups we serve on both ends of many exchanges, concert tours, youth assemblies, and other interactive programming worldwide.