COAF Jack and Zarig Youredjian Scholarship Fund provides over 350 rural youth in Armenia with access to higher education

YEREVAN — The COAF Jack & Zarig Youredjian Scholarship Fund has awarded a complete of 352 scholarships since its inception in 2019. The fund’s goal is to offer aspiring college students from COAF-supported rural communities with the life-altering alternative to pursue increased schooling at Armenia’s main universities. An overwhelmingly giant variety of Armenia’s rural youth can not afford college tuition, and most are in want of economic help after highschool. 

Benefactors Jack and Zarig Youredjian of Los Angeles established their scholarship fund for COAF throughout a visit to Armenia in 2019 upon realizing what number of rural youth are in dire want of economic help to pursue the next schooling. Their fund is dedicated to offering college scholarships to COAF Alumni from over 50 beneficiary villages. Recipients should reveal exemplary management, tutorial excellence, integrity and good citizenship. A scholar’s total tuition till commencement is roofed, whether or not an undergraduate or graduate diploma is earned.

The primary Youredjian scholarships have been awarded through the 2020-2021 tutorial 12 months, offering very important help to college students from rural Armenia who have been confronted with the pandemic and devastating warfare. Fields of research included pedagogy, enterprise administration, IT, drugs and legislation. At the moment, 87-percent of those that have graduated are already working of their areas of experience.

The Youredjian Scholarship Program additionally options an vital part along with awarding scholarships. College students are supplied profession growth packages whereas finding out. These embody internships, mentorships, employability expertise coaching and neighborhood growth initiatives for his or her hometowns.

Many scholarship recipients have already initiated initiatives of their native communities. One instance is Argishti Aleksanyan, a software program engineer who has organized pc programming {and professional} orientation workshops for center college college students in his hometown of Dalarik (Armavir Province). “The scholarship has been a real blessing. It’s impressed me to share my data and expertise with the younger individuals in my neighborhood. I’ve been working in my discipline of research for 2 years now, and that’s partially because of my mentors at HSBC Armenia, who taught me important office expertise,” stated Argishti, who graduated from the Yerevan State College of Structure and Development this summer time.

The Jack and Zarig Youredjian Scholarship Fund is only one of many philanthropic initiatives undertaken by the Youredjian Household in offering alternatives for underserved communities in Armenia and worldwide. Further vital contributions to COAF embody funding SMART Initiatives within the Lori and Armavir provinces, the development of the Regional Well being Middle in Dsegh, steady help prolonged to Baby & Household Facilities and financial growth initiatives within the areas of Armenia. The Youredjians obtained COAF’s 2019 Humanitarian Award on the sixteenth annual COAF vacation gala in recognition of their excellent charitable work.

The Kids of Armenia Fund is a non-profit, non-governmental group based in 2003. Our community-based, complete strategy to decreasing rural poverty has helped Armenian village youth entry the assets to attain and in flip, give again to their communities and the world.