ABOUT WORLD LINK
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Providing "Programs With A Purpose" is the mission of World Link, a private non-profit organization headquartered in Kalona, Iowa (USA). World Link conducts exchange programs for educators and youth through government sponsored projects that seek to improve the understanding and cooperation among the peoples and cultures of the world. World Link is a unique exchange organization that conducts only publically sponsored exchange programs that serve a citizen diplomacy mission. Thus: World Link is Programs With A Purpose.
World Link exchange programs and projects seek develop youth leadership activities around the globe utilizing merit based selection processes. Government and private sponsors fund scholarships to provide opportunities to students to experience the real culture and lifestyle of the United States that might not have the opportunity to do so through a privately sponsored exchange program. World Link provides exchange opportunities with countries that the U.S. Government wishes to have a better understanding with and provides opportunities for visiting students to become citizen diplomats in representing their culture and country to Americans through cultural presentations. World Link currently conducts high school exchange programs that focuses on the development of a successor generation through leadership skill development, appreciation of diversity and service to their community through exchange programs. |
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World Link Exchange Programs Are Sponsored by the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - Youth Division. |
| World Link provides valuable opportunities for Americans to learn about other cultures and bring the World into their home. Click below to listen to Indiana Senator Richard Lugar, Chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, speaking about a new program that World Link is participating in for predominantly Muslim countries called Youth Exchange and Studies (YES). |
| Interested in hosting an exchange student on a World Link program? Click here to visit the host family page and view videos about the hosting experience featuring World Link students and host families. | |
| Are you a student that has been assigned to World Link? Click here to see our student welcome page. | |
| Interested in seeing what World Link students do? Click here to see our current activity blog. |