Volunteer Programs in Lyon, France

I reviewed numerous travel abroad programs before selecting CHI, as it was by far the most flexible. The CHI staff are all extremely friendly and dedicated to ensuring a good experience. Before my stay in France, and I received tons of support, travel information, and advice from CHI, and during my stay, I was in constant communications with my coordinators. I am minoring in French at my university, and really wanted to improve my speaking skills and become more fluent. This program allowed me to exchange our respective languages with my host family. In addition, CHI provides you with several English language worksheets, charts, dialogue material, and other materials that makes it quite easy to teach English. The flexibility of the program gave me the time and opportunity to explore my city (Dunkirk) and interact with the locals, as well as travel to other places in France, and in other countries. I really loved the freedom I had to improve my French, while being able to travel and explore Europe.

Very good experience, CHI does its utmost to provide you with teaching resources, travel advice, information on the city and family and on top of that they give lots of reassurances and confidence boosts. They are very good at finding you a host family and helping you get in contact so you know what to expect from the family. They're also with you 100% of the way, not just getting you there. Wonderful group!

I really enjoyed the program and experience the low cost of the program for a multi month stay made it as accessible and affordable as staying on my college campus back in the states. Great way to expand on your language skills (whether you are still learning) or like myself had gone far in a school setting but searched for a more intensive setting of being in the country with a regular family! I was so lucky to have an amazing host family and stay in Lacanau which is a beach town in SW France where there were so many other youth! I can say that my host family really made the experience one of the best of my life, But without CHI I would have never had this opportunity and experience with security and certainty but at the same time authentic and unique!