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

Purdue is home to nearly 10,000 international students. 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, seasonal or cultural traditions with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. This year, the program hopes to match 200 students for the Thanksgiving Host-A-Boiler program and needs more willing hosts to match the number of students.

To host an international student for Thanksgiving, participants sign up by creating a host account (or logging in to an existing account), selecting “Thanksgiving Host-A-Boiler 2024” and then entering match preferences.

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