Program Year 2022-2023 - Fourth Quarter
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Program Highlights
Global Youth Service Day 2023
World Link 2022-2023 students spent nearly 1500 hours organizing successful Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) 2023 projects! Projects benefited many different groups including children, the elderly, those with special needs, and the homeless.

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Each year, World Link holds a GYSD project competition, selecting the overall Top Ten projects of the year. Projects are judged by National Staff based on the project's concept, the involvement of others in the community, its scope, and its outcome. Here are the overall Top Ten World Link GYSD 2023 Projects (in no particular order):

  1. Team: Kleja Verbylaite (Lithuania/IA)/Lorena David (Romania/IA): Support Outside the Box
  2. Milica Savkovic (Serbia/IL): Make Those Beautiful Souls Bloom Again
  3. Livanur Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/CA): Linking Our Hearts for Asude
  4. Roepesh Sohan (Suriname/CA): Special Miner's Day for Kids with Special Need
  5. Ani Karapetyan (Armenia/IA): Help Educate Armenian Students in Need
  6. Praveen Kumar Arul (India/CO): Fundraising Event for People Affected by Recent Earthquake in Syria
  7. Team: Roza Ashyrbekova (Kyrgyzstan/CA)/ Yasmeen Laith Jamil Tarazi (Jordan/CA): Snacks for Safety
  8. Tereza Pastorkova (Czech Republic/CO): Connections Across the Generations: High School Supports the Elderly
  9. Erkin Esengeldiev (Kyrgyzstan/CA): Teacher Star Awards
  10. Theresia Sanvia Santoso (Indonesia/CA): Trash Life - From the Trash, Create Better Life

Read a short summary about each Top Ten project here.

See the accomplishments of this year's students in our short highlight video here.

Diversity Appreciation Activity
Finalists & Honorable Mentions
Congratulations to our #FLEX & #KLYES Finalists and Honorable Mentions for World Link's Diversity Appreciation Essay/Video Competition 2023!
After their Midterm Diversity Immersion Conference, World Link students were asked to identify one group of people from their home country who have fewer rights and opportunities and discuss the problems they face through an essay or video.
We asked them to use their own thoughts, experiences, and observations in their submission. We asked them to think deeper about the issues and what could be done to fix them.

Solutions can only exist if we talk openly about the problems. Being able to do this is how our students grow into global leaders.
FLEX Winners & Honorable Mentions
YES Winners & Honorable Mentions
World Link's Top Ten Percent 2022-2023
Congratulations to this year's Top Ten Percent of World Link's PAL Program! These students have excelled in our leadership activities throughout their exchange year!

Each one was invited to attend World Link's PAL-Top Ten Advanced Leadership Conference, held in New York City! During the conference, they learned advanced project planning skills and how to find/write small grants for their future projects. They also toured the UN!
Here is our World Link Top Ten Percent this year:
⭐️Ani Karapetyan (Armenia/CO)
⭐️Diana Mkrtchyan (Armenia/IL)
⭐️Eduard Bogdan Serban (Romania/IA)
⭐️Erkin Esengeldiev (Kyrgyzstan/CA)
⭐️Livanur Bilge Ceylan (Turkey/CA)
⭐️Madina Abdishova (Kyrgyzstan/CO)
⭐️Milica Savkovic (Serbia/IL)
⭐️Oleksandra Leonovych (Ukraine/CO)
⭐️Raul Aliyev (Kazakhstan/MT)
⭐️Roza Ashyrbekova (Kyrgyzstan/CA)
⭐️Samuel Petras (Slovakia/IA)
⭐️Serdar Makhmudov (Uzbekistan/CA)
⭐️Tereza Pastorkova (Czech Republic/CO)
⭐️Theresia Sanvia Santoso (Indonesia/CA)
⭐️Yasmeen Laith Jamil Tarazi (Jordan/CA)
Students of the Month
National World Link Students of the Month
Congratulations to the following World Link students who were selected as their National Program's Student of the Month!
Milica Savkovic
(Serbia/IL)
Roepesh Sohan 
(Suriname/CA)
World Link's Students of the Month
Congratulations to our World Link Students of the Month for the 2022-2023 program year! Click their names below to read about their success and achievements this year!

Their stories are sent to the FLEX or YES Program to be considered for the National Program Student of the Month.
Milica Savkovic
(Serbia/IL)
Roepesh Sohan
(Suriname/CA)
Tereza Pastorkova
(Czechia/CO)
Nur Syariah Binti Mukhtar
(Malaysia/IA)
Alumni Highlight
Alum Wins $10k for Project
Congratulations to our World Link Georgian High School Exchange Program'11 alumna Teona Tomashvili from Georgia 🇬🇪. She was invited to pitch her project, AskGov, a citizen-centric, access to information website for Georgia, at the Copenhagen Democracy Summit Tech Summit.

Teona's impressive pitch earned her a $10,000 check to put towards her project!

Read more and see her sales pitch in this article.
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