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"The Jack & Zarig Youredjian Scholarship is so important for me and youth like me from rural communities. Beyond access to higher education, it’s given me the opportunity for self-development outside of my community."

"I took part in several training sessions and eventually received some beehives. I thought about how I could help my family after displacement. I realized that a school student living in a village can’t really work in the city, so I decided to go deeper into beekeeping and in that way help my family have an additional source of income."

"If it weren’t for COAF’s beekeeping development program at the very beginning in 2022, I might not have gotten into beekeeping at all. Today, beekeeping is no longer just a hobby for me, but a new profession and a stable source of income. What I value most about bees is their hard work."

“I liked the environment and the people so much that after the first introductory session, I told my mom, ‘I’m definitely going to keep coming here”

“What I like most about SMART is the ability to choose the programs ourselves and thus study what we are interested in and what is close to our hearts.”

“I remember it like it was today; I picked up the guitar for the first time during the musical instruments program and tried to play the first notes. I said to one of my friends sitting next to me, ‘My dream has come true”