Host families wanted
In January, Belen Jesuit will once again open its doors to students from St. Ignatius High School located in Taipei, Taiwan.
Fourteen high school students will spend over two week’s at our school working on their English, learning our traditions and culture and for most of them, experiencing the United States for the first time.
This will be our third year taking part in a Foreign Exchange Program with our Jesuit brother school, St. Ignatius. Over the years we’ve had nine students take part in this incredible program made possible with the help of Phillip Wang, the Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural office of Miami. The Foreign Exchange Program has been designed to give both schools the opportunity for students to travel and experience each other’s culture at little cost.
In order to ensure the program’s continued success we need 6 more host families to volunteer to open their homes and allow these students to stay with them the duration of their visit January 24 – February 10, 2017. In the past, the families that have hosted students found this experience not to be an imposition, but rather to be a most powerful, fulfilling and enriching experience. In fact, many parents in turn sent their sons to Taiwan during the Easter break (host families will be given preference ahead of other applicants).
If you would like to be considered to be a host family to one of these students or for more information, please contact Mr. Charles Cleveland as soon as possible at ccleveland@belenjesuit.org or Mrs. Chiu, our Taiwan Mandarin teacher at hchiu@belenjesuit.org.
BELEN JESUIT PREPARATORY SCHOOL
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
500 SW 127th Avenue, Miami, FL 33184
phone: 305.223.8600 | fax: 305.227.2565 | email: webmaster@belenjesuit.org
Belen Jesuit Preparatory School was founded in 1854 in Havana, Cuba by Queen Isabel II of Spain. The task of educating students was assigned to the priests and brothers of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits), whose teaching tradition is synonymous with academic excellence and spiritual discipline. In 1961, the new political regime of Cuba confiscated the School property and expelled the Jesuit faculty. The School was re-established in Miami the same year, and over the next decade, continued to grow. Today, Belen Jesuit sits on a 30-acre site in western Dade County, only minutes away from downtown Miami.