APIA and UCLA in an on-going partnership that began years ago, developed a special course that meets the Department of State exchange program goals. This hybrid US American History course utilizes expert professors from UCLA who deliver the course content online over 19 weeks, while concurrently sending au pairs into their local community to share [...]
Au pairs are sharing some thoughts this Thanksgiving week and throughout the end of the year about their incredible cross-cultural adventure ...let these few inspire you...more to come... Jamileth from Peru, living in NV is grateful for: "Giving me a new opportunity to live. Because I came out from my comfort zone and could live, [...]
September 21 is the globally celebrated International Day of Peace! Au Pair in America again held our annual Peace Day Contest. APIA celebrates peace by standing up against acts of hate online and off-line and by spreading compassion, kindness and hope as we recover and build a more beautiful and equitable world. Au Pairs were [...]
We asked our au pairs to share what peace could look like in a Ukrainian flag and below is the beauty they imagined and created. APiA will be making a donation in all of your names to a relief organization providing humanitarian aid for the people of Ukraine. Thank you sharing. Karien from South [...]
Peace There’s a heavy thunderstorm inside of me. It comes with heavy rain, and lightning. Sometimes it even lights up myself. It comes in waves, and sometimes it comes so fast I can’t even find a safe spot to stay dry. There’s a heavy thunderstorm inside of me. One that I can’t avoid. It [...]
In the modern days we are exposed to a lot of pressure from all the society that we live in, where we are told what to do, what to say and even what to feel; our inner peace seems attacked over rules and expectations of what and who to be. Francisca Martínez Kim Van Cleave [...]
I wanted to represent what peace means to me with dance. The peace is respect, balance, stability, friendship, cooperation and love. https://www.globalawareness.com/wp-content/uploads/formidable/7/XiaoYing_Video_1631934213436-1.mp4 Tanja Cordoba Dominique Ortiz's Cluster
Nobody can change another person's thinking or acting, but when one is forming, as children are, that is the best way to contribute to world peace since they are the tomorrow of everything. "What you do may be the only sermon some people hear from you today" San Francisco de Asis Andrea Gabriela Silvestre Rodríguez [...]
