Congratulations to Cultural Homestay International, spearheaded by founders Tom and Lilka Areton, which embarked on its 30th year on November 1st 2009. Established in 1980, CHI was founded with the idea to create a "better student exchange programme," which promotes "friendship, and harmony among young people of the world."

Contribute to the relief effort for Haiti while spending the morning with your friends at WYSE Work Abroad and other WETM-IAC delegates. Working alongside FANM, the Haitian Womens’ Organisation of Miami, volunteers will be organising and sorting donations such as clothes, tents and hygiene kits to send to Haiti.

WYSE Work Abroad recently released its Best Practices for Volunteer Programmes, the newest section in its Best Practices Manual for Work Abroad Programmes 2010—available to WYSE Work Abroad members only. This new section is the result of the hard work of many within the WYSE Work Abroad community—in particular the Volunteer Working Group, who have been working tirelessly on behalf of the Association for the past year to improve quality and best practices for the growing world of volunteering.

WYSE Travel Confederation is seeking a highly motivated, forward-thinking and proactive manager that can serve an active membership community, with strong skills in organisation, communication, marketing, event management, research, advocacy and membership services, to join our international team in Amsterdam.

Have you formed a successful partnership with a non-member during the Work Experience Travel Market (WETM) or World Youth & Student Travel Conference (WYSTC) in 2008 or 2009? Enter our Partnership of the Year Contest and you could win one free year of membership for you and your partner organisation, along with free publicity!*

WYSE Work Abroad released two projects at WETM 2009 in Vienna, available to members-only: the WYSE Work Abroad Market Barometer, and the newest section to the International Standards Manual for Work Exchange Programmes, “Developing an Effective Media Plan.”