A local representative for an organization that places exchange students with host families said she is looking for volunteers in the Carroll County area to share their home with a teenager from another part of the world.

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Elizabeth Milby, from Eldersburg, is a local representative for ASSE International Student Exchange Programs, a U.S.-based exchange student organization. She writes on Westminster Patch that people interested in hosting for the 2013-14 school year should contact her at (410) 552- 4318 or at asse.milby@gmail.com.

“Students live with a volunteer host for 10 months while attending our local high schools,” Milby wrote on Patch. “Hosts provide a bed, a bedroom, (sharing a rooom with another teen [is] ok), meals, a little transportation to school and social events, love and guidance.”

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