Eugene, Oregon Project

“This was the best day of my life!”

Mentee, The Mayfly Project

Project Location

Eugene, OR

 

Year Project Founded

2027

Project Lead Mentor

Wade Schlichenmayer

Co-Lead Mentor

 

Mentors on this team

Looking for mentors!

Children mentored to date

TBD

 

Children to be mentored in 2027

8

Local foster care partners

Every Child Lane County, CASA

Local companies that support this project

Falling Sky Brewery, Caddis Fly Shop, The City of Eugene

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At the end of our program, I received a thank you note from my mentee. He enjoyed the time we spent together on the water and mentioned that ‘he didn’t know fishing could be so fun’! It was his first-time fishing and admitted that he considered fishing ‘boring’ and that he didn’t want to do it. His perspective changed after our time together on the water. We talked conservation and he jumped right in to help keep the lake clean. His favorite part, of course, was his ‘First catch’! The note included pictures of us and it filled me with happiness and a few of those ‘happy tears’!

Mentor from The Mayfly Project

Project Mentors

Wade Schlichenmayer, LEAD MENTOR