• Call or write to your host family

  • Skype, email, FB, Google voice, texts via Skype or your own phone

  • You can send letters for your host family to Tandana in Ohio, and we will deliver them when we have the opportunity.  Please mark clearly who the letter is for.

  • Counseling services

  • Interact with speakers of the language you spoke while abroad

  • Make scrap books or post pictures

  • Professional and academic inclusion of experience

    • Give presentations at local schools

    • Do trainings or presentations for local study abroad office or schools on the country, your experience, etc.

    • Incorporate your experience into your resume

  • Offer former TF volunteers and interns the opportunity to work and volunteer with you in the future

  • Join the TF or another international organization's board if a position is available

  • Seek out opportunities to use skills and remain connected with TF
    • Consider coordinating future programs
    • Special projects that come up - Tandana can always use volunteers to work on various things.  Share your ideas for projects to take on or skills such as:
      • Translation
      • Graphic design
      • Outreach
      • Video production
    • Recruit future volunteers and interns.  Your help in spreading the word makes a big difference.

  • Be a mentor to new TF interns and volunteers as they prepare to go

  • Write in a journal, blog, or an article for a paper or other publication

  • Volunteer to work with immigrants or refugees from the area you lived in


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