Opportunities for students in Australia
Programs in agriculture, business and mining let students build careers they can bring home — supported by universities with deep international experience.
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Perú · Australia · and beyond
Because equal opportunities
Because equal opportunities
should have no borders
Merezco provides brilliant and deserving students from underprivileged regions with the support and resources they need to successfully enter and sustain careers in a high-level workforce — acting as the igniting force to uplift entire communities from poverty, one student at a time.
Meritocracy makes the world more just
Merezco strives to reward hard-working and highly capable youths, because they are the ones who will take the opportunity and run with it. They will grow the most, learn the most, and impact their communities the most.
6
Years operating
12+
Team members & mentors
80
Students trained
35
Students placed abroad
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From Perú, to the world
Merezco is headquartered in Perú, where we identify and prepare our students. From there we place them with universities and employers across a growing network of destination countries.
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Perú — our home base
Our headquarters and the community we know best. This is where we find determined, high-potential students and walk with them from first application through to placement.
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Australia — pioneer destination
One of our pioneering destinations. With programs in agriculture, business and mining, students build careers they can bring home. Australian universities have vast experience with international students — many with over 25% of their student body from abroad.
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A growing network
We continue to develop partnerships in Europe and beyond, seeking destinations where study, paid internships and part-time work can combine into a genuine career path.
The chain reaction of success
We prioritise sustainable empowerment — ensuring graduates walk confidently through the global workforce, and honour a commitment to uplift others in the same way that Merezco supported their success. By combining exposure to developed, trust-based societies with tools to maintain connection with, and investment into, their hometowns, we are simultaneously helping individuals escape a life of poverty and uplifting their under-developed communities — halting the steady flow of wasted minds around the world.
Hopeful applicants
Looking for a way out? Discover what Merezco can help you accomplish — from university admission and visa support to paid internships and long-term career placement.
See the possibilitiesYour support is welcomed
Learn how to support brilliant, capable, hard-working youths from underprivileged communities — as an employer, an educational institution, a sponsor or a volunteer.
Support the causeIt takes a village to help a village
Educational opportunity is one thing. Supporting a student all the way into a career is a process of its own — and it is where most programs stop.
Merezco walks with each student from selection in Perú, through preparation, admission and visas, into a paid internship abroad, and onward into a graduate role.
We are not in the business of hand-outs — we hand-hold students
through the grueling path of earning their place.
Our impact
Through education and work programs, Merezco seeks to impact the three key dimensions of human development: a long and healthy life, knowledge, and standard of living.
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A long and healthy life
Stable, well-paid work and improved household income change health outcomes for a student's whole family.
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Knowledge
World-class education that is recognised internationally and genuinely applicable to the global job market.
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Standard of living
Graduates reinvest in their home regions, lifting the standard of living for the communities they came from.
Our student body at a glance
Every Merezco student is selected on ability and determination — never on means.
100%
From developing regions
85%
Under the age of 25
72%
First to leave their hometown
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Communities reached
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Our internship partners
Merezco works to create equal opportunities so that talented students from developing countries get the same chances as their peers from developed ones.
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Equifax
Internships for business and accounting majors.
IBM
IBM
Internships for qualified software engineers with calibre.
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Coles Supermarket
Placements for interns interested in food and supply chain industries.
Our hope for the future
For students
A new standard for equal opportunity in both educational and vocational positions, apparent in all corners of the globe. Barriers to entering a high-level workforce will never again consist of innate environmental or economic circumstances.
For employers
In contrast to the casual attitude of privileged applicants, the ambitious and motivated nature of a student working to find their way out of poverty is a passion that is unmatched and invaluable to visionary corporations.
For communities
Sustainability is key to our operation, and informs our decision to prioritise a community's need for lasting and growing access to high-level opportunities. With enough investment, formerly underserved regions will become capable of serving themselves the life they deserve.
Latest news
Growing our employer network
How we work with corporate partners to turn internships into lasting graduate careers for Merezco students.
Continue readingThe alumni commitment
Why every Merezco graduate commits to supporting the next student — and how that compounds across a community.
Continue readingReady to take the next step?
Whether you are a student looking for a way forward, or an organisation ready to open a door — we would like to hear from you.