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AIFS Overseas is dedicated to sustainability, environmental accountability, and local weather motion. As a part of our Inexperienced Initiative, we’re proud to supply the Inexperienced Ambassador Scholarship to contributors who share our ardour for making a greener future.
AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassador scholarship recipients are anticipated to collaborate with their on-site employees to plan and execute not less than one “inexperienced” occasion throughout their program. This occasion ought to promote sustainability and local weather training and consciousness. Recipients will even be concerned in sustainability-related content material creation.
Learn on to be taught extra concerning the Spring 2026 cohort of AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassadors:
Maurycy Pedroza, Iowa State College
AIFS Overseas in Budapest, Hungary | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Economics | Minor: Knowledge Science
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means I get the prospect to deliver my ardour for sustainability into a totally new setting. It’s a possibility to be taught, adapt, and get entangled in a neighborhood I’ve by no means been a part of earlier than. I’ll proceed displaying up with an open thoughts and pleasure to develop from the experiences and folks I meet alongside the best way.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“This expertise will assist me deliver new concepts and views again house, particularly for the group I’ve already began in my neighborhood. Whereas I do know dwelling overseas will problem me, I’m certain it’s going to additionally encourage me and assist me take into consideration sustainability on an even bigger scale. Once I return, I wish to take what I be taught and use it to develop within the work I’m doing in my hometown.”
Felicity Crowe, Iowa State College
AIFS Overseas in San José, Costa Rica | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Environmental Science | Minor: Spanish, Sustainability
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To be a Inexperienced Ambassador will not be solely to advertise sustainable practices overseas and inside my house nation, however to share my experience and information concerning sustainable options and be taught from others as a way to encourage a extra sustainable future.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“The dear and various information that I’ll acquire in regard to this expertise will positively influence the number of sustainable initiates that I’ve been engaged on inside my neighborhood, college, and individually. Moreover, this expertise will assist refine my profession path in sustainability by exposing me to various environmental challenges and their options.”
In response to the overwhelming world local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming choices. We perceive that the one approach to successfully fight this disaster and mitigate the consequences of local weather change is to drastically cut back our environmental influence. Due to this fact, we’ve dedicated to reaching carbon neutrality.
Our Inexperienced Initiative has three pillars:
- Inexperienced Enterprise that features auditing our personal enterprise practices and our program companions to scale back our consumption of finite assets and limiting our carbon footprint.
- Sustainability Schooling for each our program contributors, by way of onsite engagement with native environmental initiatives, and inside our business as a pacesetter in our area.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program contributors spherical journey flights to their program location.
