Community invited to join ‘Host-a-Boiler’ during Thanksgiving break

Purdue is home to nearly 9,000 international students from around the world. During the holiday season, many of those students are unable to travel home. The Host-a-Boiler program was created over 10 years ago to provide a family experience for international students by pairing them with volunteer hosts — Purdue faculty and staff, domestic students with families, and others living in the Greater Lafayette area.

Participants sign up for a one-time get-together during the Purdue Thanksgiving break. Host-a-Boiler is an opportunity to celebrate holiday traditions with some new friends from different cultural backgrounds. This year, over 200 students signed up for the Thanksgiving Host-a-Boiler program, and more hosts are needed in order to match all these interested students. If you would like to invite an international student into your home over Thanksgiving break, please sign up here: https://purdue.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bft31w6hj4vqzZA.

To learn more about the program, visit the Host-a-Boiler website. Sign up to participate in a Thanksgiving get-together by Nov. 15.