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GIVING YOU YOUR MONTHLY DOSE OF UPLIFTING STORIES FROM TODAY'S HUMANITARIANS
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YLAI, Youthlinc, and WeLife Foundation
By: Justin Powell Youthlinc is hosting three fellows from YLAI (Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative) this year. YLAI is a program...
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The Power and Efficacy of Youthlinc’s Service Year & Partnership Model
Youthlinc’s mission is to create lifetime humanitarians. Humanitarians, once created, can then individually and collectively seek to...
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Learning Lessons from the Villagers in Yanamono II, Peru
By: Shelly Burningham Human beings are diverse in many ways. We come from different lifestyles, religions, gender, race, and...
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Empowering communities in small ways: Lessons I learned as a Peace Corps volunteer
After serving as a student and mentor in five Youthlinc Service Years, and reaching a pivotal change in both my professional and personal...
Annalisa Blackham, LCSW
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Tips from a Travel Pro: Staying Healthy and Safe
4,016 – That is the number of passenger aircrafts in the air the moment I sat down to write this article. Traveling abroad is no longer...
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Why Everyone Needs to Volunteer
Every year hundreds of Youthlinc volunteers engage locally in supporting the homeless population, people with disabilities, the elderly,...
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January Committee Training Recap
On Saturday, January 11th we had our 7th annual Youthlinc-wide committee training at Juan Diego Catholic High School. Being able to see...
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Spotlighting Brenda Hall – Team Leader, Dog Lover, and Lifetime Humanitarian
There have been thousands of amazing people that have come and gone through the Youthlinc Service Year. There have been hundreds that...
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Cambodia Killing Fields
The Killing Fields are located on the outskirts of Phnom Penh and was a location of torture, interrogation and execution from members of...
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Be Here Now – Ben Summa
The Nepal Project’s goal is to let people know that it’s time for us to build connections instead of barriers. Learning from other...
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2019 College Utah Young Humanitarian $5000 Winner
Matthew Spurrier, Junior at the University of Utah Matthew founded Maji to create change within the youth of our local community and to...
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2019 College Utah Young Humantarian $3,000 Winner
Madison Sudweeks, Junior at the University of Utah There is nothing Madi is more passionate about than sharing her love for service with...
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2019 Real Life Scholarship Winner
Ibrahim Ramazani-Freshman at Salt Lake Community College Ibrahim came to the United States as a refugee from Malawi. He is 19 years old...
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2019 Real Life Scholarship Winner
Abdul Bary Ayubi-Senior at Cottonwood High School Abdul is from Afghanistan. He came with his parents and siblings to the United States...
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Nepal June 2018
From June 13 to June 15 we spent 54 hours traveling to our destination. This was broken up with 4 flights and one awesome excursion in...
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