About Us

AYFN Academy is a dynamic global platform that empowers youth to broaden their networks and develop essential skills for the future. Established on January 19, 2010, in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, AYFN is dedicated to providing high-quality and safe programs focused on knowledge enhancement, personal growth, and cultural exchange. These programs offer diverse placement opportunities across multiple countries, allowing participants to immerse themselves in new environments. Beyond facilitating skill transfer to host communities and institutions, AYFN is committed to fostering global understanding by enabling participants to return to their home countries enriched with valuable cultural insights and transformative experiences. Through its comprehensive approach, AYFN Academy aims to nurture well-rounded, culturally aware leaders who can contribute meaningfully on both local and international stages.

Be a leading organization committed to excellence in knowledge enhancement, holistic personal development, youth empowerment, and meaningful cultural exchange.

Our mission is to establish transformative platforms and initiatives that inspire and enable young individuals to realize their utmost potential, foster intercultural understanding, and develop leadership capabilities. Through rigorously designed programs and a nurturing community, AYFN endeavors to equip the forthcoming generation with the requisite skills and insights to contribute significantly and enduringly to both their local environments and the global society.

• Connect young people across the globe to know each other.
• Provide an opportunity for young people to experience different cultures and international travel whilst making a difference.
• Make safe, quality international cultural and knowledge travel genuinely in order to promote cultural understanding.
• Provide authentic international travel experiences, achieved by living and working with local people, communities, organizations and families.
• Heighten awareness of issues in developing countries through first hand volunteer experiences.
• Education for both local people and participants (through their travel experience and interaction with local people).
• Assistance to local communities and organizations through providing short international travel and volunteers.