YFU (Youth for Understanding) is a organization that holds youth exchange programs for high school students. They advance intercultural understanding, life-long learning, global responsibility, and mutual respect through the exchanges. Currently youngsters can go to over 50 different countries all over the world and they were created after the Second World War to promote peace and understanding all over the world.
Through subjecting young people to different cultures, they are likely to become more open and understanding, thus helping to uphold important democratic values in their home countries.
