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Welcome to our newest member – ALT Experience Russia

Nov 22, 2018 | Cultural Exchange, Members, Work and Travel

News Interview with Sergey Trebunskikh, Managing Director Tell us your story. How did ALT Experience Russia get started? My journey started back in 2002 with my trip to the US as part of the Work and Travel programme when I was still a student. I had already travelled...

Aussies & Irish to undertake Working Holidays up to age 35

Nov 7, 2018 | Cultural Exchange, Work and Travel

News Media Release: 2 November 2018 YHA Australia welcomes the announcement that from 1 November 2018, young Irish up to the age of 35 will be eligible to apply for a Working Holiday (subclass 417) visa to enter Australia. Under the reciprocal scheme, Australians...

InterExchange provides funding for students to whom “Sustainability Matters”

Oct 18, 2018 | Cultural Exchange, Volunteer Travel

News With an extension of the deadline to apply for the Sustainable Action Costa Rica Program, WYSE Travel Confederation member InterExchange gives an opportunity to students engaged in promoting sustainability, funding half of the cost of their programme....

What US Exchange Visitor Program participants need to know about Trump’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act

Aug 17, 2018 | Advocacy, Cultural Exchange, Exchange Visitor Program, Youth Travel

News President Donald Trump introduced the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act in November 2017. The new tax law has implications for interns, au pairs, Summer Work Travel participants, trainees and other participants of the US Exchange Visitor Program who have earned money while...

GROUND adds new community travel programmes throughout Asia

Aug 8, 2018 | Cultural Exchange, Members, Volunteer Travel, Work and Travel

News WYSE Travel Confederation member GROUND is bringing dozens of new community and educational programme offerings to Asia. GROUND is a travel operator focused on educational travel that develops resilience and global citizenship skills for high school pupils. It...

Innovative volunteer project empowering impoverished Cape Town community

Jul 10, 2018 | Members, Volunteer Travel

News Nyanga East is an area in one of the oldest and poorest parts of Cape Town, South Africa. Nyanga in Xhosa means “moon” and black migrants, having fled conflict and economic depression in other African countries, were forced to settle there during the apartheid...