CISV:  Building Global Friendship (formerly known as Children’s International Summer Villages) is an independent, non-profit, non-political, volunteer organization that offers children and adults the opportunity to make new friendships worldwide and understand and appreciate different cultures. While CISV offers many different programs, the philosophy of CISV can be summarized as a commitment to know countries through close friends rather than as abstract places on a map and to accept others without prejudice or stereotypes.

For further information on CISV around the world and in the USA, please see www.cisv.org and www.cisvusa.org.