United Armenian Fund donates $4.5 million to all 28 Armenian schools in
Lebanon

ArmRadio.am
04.11.2006 15:40

The United Armenian Fund, through a generous grant from the Lincy
Foundation, is donating a total of $4.5 million to all 28 Armenian
schools throughout Lebanon.

This contribution is prompted by the economic crisis of the
past few years, which was aggravated by the devastating attack on
Lebanon last summer. Thousands of needy Armenian families could no
longer afford the tuition for the Armenian schools their children
attended. Consequently, most of these schools were in no position to
pay the salaries of their teachers and staff.

The UAF funds contributed to these schools are designated for three
specific purposes: $3.2 million to pay full or partial tuition for
5,092 needy Armenian students, which constitutes close to 75% of the
7,029 students enrolled in all 28 schools during the 2006-07 academic
year; $757,000 to cover the salaries owed by most of the schools to
536 teachers and staff for the past academic year; a total of $513,000
for the general operating expenses of these schools.

Harut Sassounian, the President of the United Armenian Fund, is
currently in Lebanon to visit all 28 Armenian schools, meet with their
principals and educational councils, and deliver the earmarked sums
to each school.

"The UAF’s contribution will be allocated to all Armenian schools in
Lebanon, without exception," Sassounian said.