Achievements

Renovated approximately 200 village schools in Armenia, Artsakh and Javakhk

In 1986 the Armenian Educational Foundation Chair of Modern Armenian History was established at the University of California, Los Angeles, (UCLA) with a half a million dollars collected from the AEF board members, general membership, and friends.

Granting over 250 scholarships in Armenia, Artsakh, Javakhk, Lebanon and United States.

The devastating earthquake that struck Armenia in December 1988 created a unique opportunity for AEF, which took action to renovate damaged schools in Armenia.  Since that date the AEF has renovated about 200 schools in Armenia, Artsakh and Javakhk.

Financed 4-year Computer Information Systems Bachelor’s Degree in Artskah State University.

Since 1994 over 1700 scholarships have been awarded to the students in universities in Armenia and Artsakh.

Since 1950 AEF has been a cornerstone of the Armenian educational movement around the world.

AEF has been credited with building and supporting numerous Armenian day schools around the world. The first schools built by the organization were the Levon and Sophia Hagopian Armenian School in Athens, Greece and the Levon and Sophia Hagopian College in Bourj Hammoud, Lebanon.

AEF has been credited with building and supporting numerous Armenian day schools around the world. The first schools built by the organization were the Levon and Sophia Hagopian Armenian School in Athens, Greece and the Levon and Sophia Hagopian College in BourjHammoud, Lebanon.

To date, over 100 computers have been distributed to village schools renovated by AEF in Armenia, Artsakh, and Javakhk.

AEF has participated in the financing of the first two Armenian day schools in the United States: Holy Martyr’s Ferrahian Elementary and High School and Mesrobian School.

AEF provided computer hardware, software, and professional training to teachers in the border villages of Armenia and Artsakh.

In addition to helping the schools mentioned above, AEF has made donations  to day schools and preschools in the US, Canada and Lebanon.

Since 2007, the AEF School Supply Committee has sent school supplies to a total of 18,000 students of village schools in Armenia, Artsakh  and Javakhk.

AEF was one of the nine Armenian Organizations which received funds ($333,333) from New York Life Insurance Settlements for  Survivors of Genocide. AEF allocated 100% of the funds for renovations of schools, including furnishing new desks.