Carpathian Village Students To Get American Stipends
27 апреля, 00:00
By Vasyl ZUBACH, The Day
Californian Jordan August has established a foundation in honor of his
father Ivan Ahoshtok, who was born in a mountain village Uhlia, Tiachiv
district (Transcarpathia), in 1912. He went to the US at the age of 22.
His last will seemed to foresee Ukraine's current hardships: his son is
to establish a $1000 a year scholarship for each Uzhhorod University student
from the village of Uhlia. Given the Uhlia residents' current dire straits,
a monthly 280 hryvnias is indescribable happiness for five former villagers,
now undergraduates in various departments and courses of the local university.
The lucky five will receive the aforesaid amount in full before the end
of this academic year. And at the beginning of the new academic year, another
five residents of poverty-stricken Uhlia will be honored with financial
aid from Western Diaspora.
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