​ Neighbors Abroad fosters Palo Alto's domestic and international engagement through friendship, education, commerce, and sustainability. ​

Neighbors Abroad is a non-profit, all-volunteer, civic organization affiliated with Sister Cities International and the City of Palo Alto. We celebrated our 60th anniversary in 2023!

We leverage Silicon Valley's diversity and resources to cultivate partnerships with eight international Sister Cities, as well as a first-of-its-kind, domestic Sibling City relationship with Bloomington, Indiana, and a Friendship City relationship with Narok, Kenya.
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​We invite residents of Palo Alto and surrounding communities to join us in our mission to promote connections and celebrate differences through our year-round programs. Across our global network, we focus on exchange programs, cultural enrichment, service projects, sustainability initiatives, and the promotion of commerce.​

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• Albi, France
• Bloomington, Indiana
• Enschede, Netherlands
• Heidelberg, Germany
• Linköping, Sweden​

• Oaxaca, Mexico
• Palo, Philippines 
• Tsuchiura, Japan
• Yangpu District, Shanghai China

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The Neighbors Abroad Blog
Musings and Missives for a Small World

Welcome to Neighbors Abroad's blog. Here our board members and other contributors share their ideas and insights in short, personal essays. We focus on our many projects at home and abroad, with the goal of illuminating the relevance of Sister and Sibling Cities in an ever-more-connected world.  Here's our latest post:

How a Chance Encounter in Oaxaca Sparked Years of Giving and Global Connection

By Gretchen Wirtz 
I volunteered at the Albergue for fourteen of the fifteen years I lived in Oaxaca. As anyone might guess, I became close to many of the young people with whom I interacted, witnessing their graduations, marriages, and even the birth of their children. I continue to be in touch with a number of them today, and they continue to enrich my life. It is important to salute the nuns who raise those children, often to adulthood. My experience of the Albergue children is they become caring, inclusive, helpful, and responsible young people and continue to look upon the Albergue as their family thanks to the nuns. Read more here...

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