• Welcome your host daughter/son as a member of the family and assist in his/her adaptation to the family as well as to Indian life and culture.

• Provide your host daughter/son a bed, study area and three meals a day.

• Help with the necessary transportation of your host daughter/son, by driving him/her, or by providing access to a bicycle, a bus, through rides with friends, etc.

• Include your host daughter/son in all family social activities, and holidays.

• Help your host daughter/son meet other Indians through introductions to friends, neighbors and classmates, and by encouraging him/her to join clubs or pursue activities.

• Help your host daughter/son become familiar with the community and its resources (e.g., interesting sights, locations and type of recreation facilities, location and layout of school building, shopping areas).

• Neither allow nor encourage your host daughter/son to violate YFU policies, or the law, and immediately report any such violation to the YFU counselor.

• Facilitate the attendance of your host daughter/son at YFU-required orientation programs.

• Expect contact on a monthly basis from the YFU counselor.

• Work with your host daughter/son to solve problems. And to resolve difficulties and misunderstanding. If they remain unresolved, contact the YFU counselor. Also contact the counselor if issues arise in your family and/or student’s adjustment in the student’s, school performances, or if your family must withdraw form the program at any point after a student placement is confirmed with us.