Exchanges of approximately 20 to 25 people spend a week in Olympia homes, see the sites and experience life in our corner of the world. Guests are citizen "ambassadors." In addition we have the opportunity to visit one of the 60 countires around the globe and experience their hospitality. People who meet as strangers at the beginning of the week are firm friends by the end. In 1978, years before Olympia had a local organization, the first Washington exchange took place, only the second year of Friendship Force's existence. The format for exchanges has changed over the years but the goal is still the same: To connect across the barriers of space, language and culture that separate people. Travel is the means, and hospitality is the method to form bonds of friendship that stretch across the miles and years.

A world of friends is a world of peace. YOU can make a difference.

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