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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 workers to plan and execute at the very least one “inexperienced” occasion throughout their program. This occasion ought to promote sustainability and local weather training and consciousness. Recipients can even be concerned in sustainability-related content material creation.
Learn on to study extra concerning the Summer time 2025 cohort of AIFS Overseas Inexperienced Ambassadors:
Candace Cardwell, West Virginia College
AIFS Overseas in Athens, Greece | Examine Overseas Program
Main: World Provide Chain Administration
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means main by instance in making sustainable selections, inspiring others to cut back their environmental influence, and advocating for an total more healthy planet!”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“My expertise overseas in Athens, Greece will strengthen my adaptability and deepen my appreciation for historical past, meals, and alternative ways of life. I hope to carry again a better sense of independence, new friendships, and a recent outlook that may form how I strategy challenges, alternatives, and on a regular basis experiences at dwelling.”
Carlos Castro, College of Kentucky
AIFS Overseas in Florence, Italy | Examine Overseas Program
Main: Psychology
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“Being a Inexperienced Ambassador means having the possibility to find out about sustainability in a deeper approach and share that information with others. It’s a approach for me to take motion and present that even small steps can result in significant change.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“This expertise will give me new concepts and inspiration to reside extra sustainably in my every day life. I’ll use what I study to begin conversations, help native efforts, and proceed making a optimistic influence at dwelling.”
Katherine Villandry, School of Charleston
AIFS Overseas European Artwork and Tradition Program | Examine + Journey
Main: Communication
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“As a Inexperienced Ambassador, my mission is to begin conversations and educate my friends on the significance of implementing sustainable attitudes and actions in our lives. I hope to share my expertise and expose others to sustainability in a setting the place they may not come throughout it.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“I’ll analyze various cultural practices with a sustainability perspective whereas additionally immersing myself in these practices. I stay up for bringing dwelling new environmental information and hope to use it to my day-to-day life on the School of Charleston.”
Ava Caughron, Texas A&M College
AIFS Overseas in Barcelona, Spain | Internship Program
Main: Enterprise Honors and Administration Consulting
What does it imply to you to be a Inexperienced Ambassador?
“To me, being a Inexperienced Ambassador means advocating for motion inside our meals system. Thus making a bridge in international perspective and training that spurs individuals in the direction of change.”
How will this expertise overseas tie again into your on a regular basis life after you come out of your program?
“I’m utilizing this time overseas to broaden my perspective on worldwide cultures and remodel college information into life knowledge. I hope that upon my return, I’ll have gained new perception and experiences that may form my future selections and deepened my understanding of the world and its individuals!”
In response to the overwhelming international local weather disaster, AIFS Overseas has made sustainability a key precedence when contemplating organizational, operational, and programming selections. We perceive that the one technique to successfully fight this disaster and mitigate the results of local weather change is to drastically cut back our environmental influence. Subsequently, 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 cut back our consumption of finite assets and limiting our carbon footprint.
- Sustainability Training for each our program contributors, by onsite engagement with native environmental initiatives, and inside our business as a pacesetter in our discipline.
- Offsetting Carbon Emissions by buying verified carbon credit for all our program contributors spherical journey flights to their program location.
