We are extremely excited to launch the mrsHomestay portal. There are several new features which we have put into the site to help students and guardians find each other. More new upcoming features are planned, and our calendar of incremental updates are planned all way till end 2008.

If you are our partnered hosts reading this post, this is an excellent platform for you to showcase your homestay and guardianship services. We are building more tools on this site to help you connect with students and their parents in Asia.

For the international student and their parents, these new features are here to make it easier to browse our database of guardians and homestay hosts, and in a manner which is safe and transparent.

Powerful Advance Search Facility

View Recommended Homestay/Guardian Profiles

Brand New Guardian / Homestay Profiles

Surf a growing community of Singapore homestay guardians. These guardians open their homes for homestay and provide other services such as laundry, and meals.

Tools to Help You Remember

Add-To-Favourites. As you browse through many profiles of guardians and homestays, you may want to bookmark some of those profiles to allow easy access.

We are continuing to build more features to help international students and their parents connect with Singapore guardians and homestay families. In the next few months, we will enable mrsHomestay.com with other asian languages.

Please feel free to add your comments.

Finally…we have a pre-launch site up and running since last week. If you have no clue what this site about after scanning all the pages, then maybe this may help a little. To start off, this portal is started when Innovez One PTE LTD, an affiliated company of MRSHomestay.com won a bid from Singapore Tourism Board to provide professional services for Housing Development Board (HDB) Homestay Guardianship Programme. Read more on Channel News Asia site.

So what is MRSHomestay?

Summarized version : MRSHomestay provides a matchmaking service to overseas student looking to stay with a family during stay in Singapore. The family will provide accomodation, food, guardianship etc.

How do we do that? We provide a set of online tools such as Online Registration, Search engine, Users Voting, Guardian Personal Pages for users who register with us. Offline MRSHomestay matchmakers do the job of bringing students to a profile of registered guardians that match their requirements such as locality, personal preferences, school etc.

We hope to put up more tools and resources over the next couple of months and at the meanwhile, we totally welcome any suggestions on how we can make this site a little easier and more useful for you.

Regards, DAVE