WorldLink Accomplishments

This innovative, community-based education program has experienced tremendous success in its first ten years. WorldLink’s educational activities impact 1, 000 to 2,000 students directly each year. Even more students are reached through continued peer education, which includes articles in student-produced newspapers, media attention for WorldLink programs that feature student participants, and senior exhibition projects that are developed as a result of students’ exposure to WorldLink activities.

According to participating teachers, students engaged in educational experiences like WorldLink activities outside the traditional classroom demonstrate positive long-term effects. The opportunity to learn from active, informed experts and to engage in a meaningful discussion of the issues has influenced students’ career and educational choices. WorldLink programs assist in developing students’ self-esteem and self-confidence, as well as challenging them intellectually.

Support from the community and WorldLink participants has contributed greatly to the program’s success. The feedback from student participants, teachers, visiting speakers, and the community has been overwhelmingly positive.

WorldLink Recognized by Respected International Organization!

CIVICUS: World Alliance for Citzenship Participation, an international alliance with members and partners in roughly 100 countries that has worked for over a decade to strengthen citizen action and civil society throughout the world, has selected WorldLink Program Coordinator Karla Alvarez to participate in its annual conference in Glasgow, Scotland from June 16-21.

As a youth delegate, Alvarez will join 199 other international "young women and men who are really making changes to things that matter" for the CIVICUS Youth Assembly with the theme of "People, Participation, Power." The Youth Assembly will offer delegates a program and a space to develop and commit to action internationally. The theme of participation in civil society will be explored over the course of the event and delegates will learn about issues that affect billions of people worldwide through a series of workshops and skills development sessions.

Youth Assembly delegates will also go on to participate, as full delegates, in the CIVICUS World Assembly where they will have a voice and opportunity to meet and influence some of the world's leading NGOs, groups and individuals who are committed to the creation of a more just and equitable world.

This opportunity is a great honor for WorldLink and its mission to further connect youth to global affairs.

WorldLink Transforms Lives!

Read testimonies of the inspiration WorldLink brings to the lives it touches.

Contact Information:

Karla Alvarez, WorldLink Program
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego
5998 Alcala Park
San Diego, CA 92110-2492
Phone: 619-260-7509