By Jackie Moynihan and Shelly Burningham, Real Life Directors For the past several years, Merrick Bank  has been a tremendous donor and partner for Youthlinc and its flagship after-school peer mentoring program, Real Life . In addition to their financial support of Youthlinc programming, Merrick Bank has also taken part in Real Life curriculum development and scholarship promotion .  Merrick Bank first got involved in Youthlinc during the 2017-2018 Real Life year. After gener

By: Jackie Moynihan There are so many amazing organizations in our community that make what we do at Youthlinc possible. Today, we would like to take a minute to highlight one of those organizations, Juan Diego Catholic High School.  Juan Diego has been the generous host of our annual Service Year General Orientation for the past four years. This event marks the beginning of a new adventure for about 500 Service Year participants, both students and adults. The staff at Juan D

By: Jackie Moynihan Youthlinc has called Peru home for the past 15 years thanks to partnerships with our amazing in-country coordinator, Carlos Acosta, the Rotary Club of Iquitos, and countless other community leaders. In order to provide sustainable international humanitarian work in Peru and the other countries we serve, Youthlinc does not stay in one community for more than 3 years. After two years worth of Youthlinc teams and work in Santa Isabel, a small river village ou