Programs
WorldLink Transforms Lives
According to participating teachers, students engaged in educational experiences like WorldLink activities outside the traditional classroom demonstrate positive long-term effects. WorldLink programming assists in developing students’ self-esteem and self-confidence, as well as challenges them intellectually.
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Student Testimonies
"I found this experience to be one of the best I have ever had. I’ve learned so much from the YTM! I have become aware of the many injustices in the world and now I feel obligated to take part in an organization to make others aware of the injustices. I now have a strong passion for helping and volunteering in order to achieve justice and bring dignity to all." – 2005 student delegate |
“It was the best day of my life." - Michelle Millar, 8th Annual Youth Town Meeting |
“Seeing a face behind the problem, hearing from Roque who actually faced these hardships… the problem wasn’t just abstract anymore but was represented by someone sitting right there.” – 2006 student delegate |
“The youth conference was something of a great moment. I was glad it was a coalition of people with different ethnicities and nationalities, as well as different ages. I admired the fact that we high school students were being treated as adults. I hope that all other participants enjoyed it and took it as a call to be more involved in our world, too.” - Ariel Ronay, 11th grade |
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Teacher Testimonies
“Your program has been a great addition to our regular programming. Most of our girls have never seen a college campus. They became excited about their education following our visit. I believe their participation has helped increase the number of girls graduating and/or getting their GEDs.” - Rebecca Booth, Sr. Police Officer, GRF/Sierra Vista School |
“My students went away with their heads brimming with ideas and information.” - Melissa Romero, teacher, Mission Bay High School |
"My students and I love going to the WorldLink activities each year. The students have the opportunity to practice English in a real-world setting, not in the teacher-student experience they have in class, but in a teenager-teenager interation." - Evelina Flores, Instituto Mexicano Noroeste (IMAN), Baja California, Mexico |
“When my students come here, they feel smart. They are treated as adults and they sense that respect. It’s wonderful to see them light up.” - Ricardo Medina, Mueller Charter Leadership Academy |
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Speaker Testimonies
“Though I had been told in advance about the motivation and talents of many WorldLink student participants, I was still very impressed upon meeting so many well-informed, energetic, and articulate students. They listened attentively to my presentation and asked very sharp questions. Unlike many academic conferences I have attended, these questions were devoid of any pretense and instead got at the heart of the issue. One student, for instance, asked the very poignat question of why the US doesn't just join the ICC and then use its influence to make sure that politically-motivated prosecutions are not brought against it. A very obvious question, perhaps, but one that nobody has really answered!” - Mieczslaw P. Boduszynski, Woodrow Wilson Fellow and speaker at the 2004 Youth Town Meeting
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“It was an honor to be there and to talk with all those great high school kids. I came away with great hope for the future.” - Rev. Canon Allisyn Thomas, religious tolerance speaker at the 2007 Youth Town Meeting |
"WorldLink is such an important link to our small global village! (This) provides a tomorrow of individuals who will create social change and social justice across borders because (WorldLink) facilitated inspirational first hand knowledge of experiences and then the hard data of the wrongs that must be righted. The high energy of the diverse youth was palpable, as was their intellect. It was a very meaningful day for me.” - Nancy Rubin, US Ambassador to the UN High Commission for Human Rights and speaker at the 1999 Youth Town Meeting |
“Ever since I met her at the WorldLink Conference last January, Emi has sought me out for advice on a variety of academic-related issues, particularly her choice of university education here in the Washington, D.C. area. I have in essence become her informal academic advisor and have come to appreciate her natural intelligence, her ability to solve problems, and her aptitude for thinking at different levels of analysis.” - Kamal Beyoglow, 2008 WorldLink speaker, Professor of Security & Strategy, U.S. National War College on delegate Emi Koch, Academy of Our Lady of Peace |
WorldLink receives hundreds of letters and comments with similar praise and accolades.
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