YES Abroad & NSLI Additional Information
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For information about the Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study Abroad (YES Abroad) program, please see the YES Abroad page on the AFS Wiki: YES Abroad
The National Security Language Initiative for Youth Program (NSLI-Y) provides merit-based scholarships for eligible high school students to learn less commonly taught, yet strategic, languages in summer, semester, and academic-year overseas immersion programs. Those languages are Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Farsi, Russian, and Turkish. NSLI for Youth - a venture funded by the U.S. Congress, and administered by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - encourages beginning, intermediate, and advanced language learners with a passion for learning languages, communicating across cultures, and living abroad to apply for 325 scholarships in 2009.
NSLI-Y scholars are participating in AFS programs; therefore, NSLI-Y scholars will be
AFS Participants and will share similarities with AFS Core students with the following notes and exceptions:
- NSLI summer programs last six weeks, versus 4 weeks for core program students
- NSLI provides supplemental, on-going language instruction
- Domestic travel to the Gateway Orientations is covered by the scholarship
- Domestic Gateways and travel dates are the same for NSLI students and Core students except for those students on Year and Semester programs to Egypt and Turkey (see below)
| Country | Program | Pax # | Domestic Arrival Date | International Departure Date | International Arrival Date | Departure City | Arrival City | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NSLI | TUR | Sum | 10 | 26-Jun-09 | 27-Jun-09 | 28-Jun-09 | NYC | Istanbul |
| NSLI | IND | Sum | 10 | 26-Jun-09 | 27-Jun-09 | 28-Jun-09 | NYC | Delhi |
| NSLI | EGY | Sum | 25 | 26-Jun-09 | 27-Jun-09 | 28-Jun-09 | NYC | Cairo |
| NSLI | CHN | SM | 25 | 19-Aug-09 | 20-Aug-09 | 21-Aug-09 | LAX | Beijing |
| NSLI | CHN | YP | 15 | 19-Aug-09 | 20-Aug-09 | 21-Aug-09 | LAX | Beijing |
| NSLI | RUS | YP | 10 | 19-Aug-09 | 20-Aug-09 | 21-Aug-09 | NYC | Moscow |
| NSLI | RUS | SM | 10 | 19-Aug-09 | 20-Aug-09 | 21-Aug-09 | NYC | Moscow |
| NSLI | TUR | YP | 10 | 26-Aug-09 | 27-Aug-09 | 28-Aug-09 | IAD | Istanbul |
| NSLI | TUR | SM | 5 | 26-Aug-09 | 27-Aug-09 | 28-Aug-09 | IAD | Istanbul |
| NSLI | EGY | YP | 15 | 26-Aug-09 | 27-Aug-09 | 28-Aug-09 | IAD | Cairo |
| NSLI | EGY | SM | 15 | 26-Aug-09 | 27-Aug-09 | 28-Aug-09 | IAD | Cairo |
