"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."
Lyudmila Shirvanyan
From
Mets Ayrum, Lori
"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."
Miranda Asryan,
From
Artsakh
"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."
Armenuhi Sargsyan
From
Debed, Lori
“After the opening of the SMART Center, more and more people would visit and discover. Before, when there was no work, the village was being emptied. Today, they are coming back.”
Narek Muradyan
From
Debed, Lori
“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”
