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 Home  LINC Program 2005 US Students
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Talented highschool students from the LA area participated in a
three-week exchange program to Bangladesh. Each of them is
interested in community service and has displayed some skill as a youth
leader -- check out their biographies:
 | Jammie: Jammie is in the eleventh grade and attends Belmont High
School. Jammie is very involved in her school and is Student Body
C-Track Vice President, and a member of her School Site Council.
Jammie volunteers at the Boys and Girls club and enjoys singing at her
church. She also loves reading and playing with her
one-year old cousin. When not in school, she works at Washington
Mutual, a well known bank in California . Jammie has joined this
program to educate herself about other cultures around the world.
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John: John currently lives with his
mother in Newport Beach where he attends Newport Harbor High School .
He has been very involved with many different sports, but now focuses
on tennis where he is a member of the Varsity team and plays in junior
tournaments on weekends. He recently became involved with Wushu,
Chinese martial arts. In addition to concentrating on his studies
in the DaVinci Math and Science Academy at Harbor, he is involved with
the Big Brother Program and raising money for Hurricane Katrina victims
through E-Bay. His hobbies include surfing, (both the waves and
the internet), film, snowboarding, chatting on-line with his friends on
MySpace, and traveling. He plans to attend college either on the East
Coast or in Southern California but he hasn’t decided if he’ll major in
nursing or business.
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Bryant: Bryant is an understanding,
open-minded, and well rounded person. He tries his best to perform at
his peek with any obstacle. He believes that helping is not to make
things happen, but to commit and listen. Bryan t loves to
play football, basketball and chess. He also enjoys writing
poetry and taking photographs. He is active in his community
through the program Med-Cor, and Teen Court and recently participated
in the L.A. AIDS Walk. While attending at an inner-city school, Manual
Arts High School, he had performed greatly and gained the respect of
the many teachers, and the student body.
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Jessica: Jessica is 16 years old and
is a junior at Orange High School. She is very studious and enjoys
school. Jessica aspires to attend New York University and go into
medicine. In her spare time she enjoys reading and listening to music.
She listens to a variety of music and enjoys reading Dan Brown and Amy
Tan books. Jessica also spends time with her friends. She
and her friends they enjoy going to the Orange Circle and swimming
together. She also enjoys doing karaoke. Her hobbies involve
volunteering and writing. Jessica is involved in a variety
of clubs at school, including Key Club, CPC, Future Business Leaders of
America (FBLA), Academic Decathlon, and Junior Statesman of America.
She is also an officer of FBLA and President of the Book Club. Jessica
enjoys learning about different cultures and taught herself Portuguese
and hopes to learn German and Italian. She also hopes to become
involved with other volunteer organizations such as the Make a Wish
Foundation. Jessica is very dedicated and ambitious and likes keeping
herself busy.
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Ivan: Ivan is an intelligent young man. He
is 15 years old and goes to school at Camino Nuevo High Tech High. Ivan
lives with his family, his mother, father, and two siblings. In his
spare time, Ivan likes to exercise and learn new things and get ideas
on how he can help his community. Ivan is very passionate and believes
that his goal in this world is to serve others in need. He has very
good relations with his family and friends. Ivan also wants to be
something great in life; he would like to gain enough power and respect
so that he can change many things around him for the good of the human
race. He believes that everyone is different in their own way and that
everyone should be respected. Ivan wants to be a great leader in life
and to help as many people as possible.
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Angela: Angela is 16 years old and
attends David Starr Jordan High School in Los Angeles. She plans to
attend a small liberal arts college. Angela enjoys writing, poetry,
dancing, and choreographs in her free time. She loves to debate and is
very argumentative. She also likes to listen to classical music and
meditate when she can get a moment to herself. Her goal in life is to
be the best that she can be and to be as motivated and dedicated as
possible. Her favorite quote is “He who is good at making excuses, is
seldom good at anything else.”- Benjamin Franklin. She hopes one day to
be a writer and start her own publishing company. She believes in
dreaming big!
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Ryan: Today Ryan is a part of Relief
International because he wants to find out more about the outside world
and more about who he is as a person. As a child, he spent his days in
Nigeria with his family doing missionary work and aiding the local
village people. At age five, after having spent his entire life in
Nigeria , Ryan left Nigeria with his family. The whole family, his
parents, twin sister, and two brothers moved to Southern California.
Ryan is currently 17 years old and attends Monrovia High School. His
involvement in his church, Boys’ State and school clubs sparked his
interest in aiding the people around him and caused him to seek better
ways of helping others. He is ecstatic about his opportunity with
Relief International and hopes it will help him determine where to take
his life next as he enters college.
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Gloria: Gloria was born in Guatemala,
Central America, and immigrated to the US when she was four years
old. She has learned the English language quite well despite the
fact that she speaks Spanish at home, thus making her a great
translator. She is currently a senior attending Phineas Banning High
School in the City of Wilmington. Gloria enjoys watching the Discovery
Channel, History Channel, and Animal Planet. She also enjoys talking to
friends who are scattered throughout the US via internet. Her favorite
pastime is watching Naruto with English subtitles and reading the
Naruto manga in English. Gloria volunteers as a adult health day care
facility and enjoys becoming more informed about the military since she
is planning on joining the Armed Forces in the future. Her long
term dream is to become a registered nurse.
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