AFSA exists to support the United States Foreign Service, which deploys worldwide to protect and serve America’s people, interests and values. AFSA’s members are career professionals who volunteer to live and work abroad for roughly two-thirds of their careers—usually serving abroad with their families, but sometimes unable to—representing America to the people and leaders of other countries. Members of the Foreign Service are posted to more than 270 U.S. embassies, consulates and other missions that are scattered across the globe—most in difficult and many in dangerous environments.

In addition to being interviewed by her daughter for this documentary project, Maureen Sullivan (daughter of Gene & Hope) compiled her childhood memories of being raised overseas into a memoir.

Through her stories, the reader can begin to appreciate the adaptability of children to other cultures and the fortitude and courage of parents trying to raise their children to be good citizens of the world as well as good Americans.