We need your support! Our SOAR Rocky Mountains Chapter is excited to launch our campaign for educational supplies for the children of the Ada Keshishyants Social Rehabilitation Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities*, Armenian Evangelical Boarding School**, and Birds's Nest Orphanage***. Our campaign will run through the first week of April.
**With your generosity, we hope to not only meet it, but beat it!**
* The Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief (SOAR) opened the Ada Keshishyants Social Rehabilitation Center for Children with Developmental Disabilities in July 2023. The first of its kind in Vanadzor, the Center serves as a non-residential facility for children with developmental, emotional, intellectual, physical, and psychological disabilities in Vanadzor, Armenia. Dedicated in the name of Ada Keshishyants, who suffers from a life-threatening, rare genetic disease called Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Type 1. To learn more about this deadly disease, please visit here. Children with SMA die slowly, rarely reaching two years of age.One shot of Zolgensma could have helped treat or even cure Ada, but at a cost of $2.125 million. In 2021, the funds were raised to purchase Zolgensma, but complications arose, and unfortunately, Ada was not able to receive the treatment.
** Armenian Evangelical Boarding School is in Ainjar, Lebanon, and is home to 82 healthy social orphans between the ages of 4 and 18. Nanor Kelenjian Akbasharian is the director.
*** Birds’ Nest Orphanage in Jbeil, Lebanon, has been home to thousands of Armenian children in the Middle East region for more than 100 years. Today, Birds’ Nest houses healthy children between 6 months and 17 years old.
**100% of proceeds of our Campaign will go to the three facilites for educational supplies!**
Please help us meet our goal by clicking "Donate" above.
Every dollar counts and all donations accepted! Please share our fundraiser with your friends and family, and direct any inquiries you may have to rockymountains@soar-us.org. We thank you for your support of the most vulnerable this holiday season.
SOAR (Society for Orphaned Armenian Relief) is the world's only charitable organization devoted exclusively to helping orphaned Armenian children. SOAR is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and your donation is tax-deductible to the full extent allowed by law. Visit here to learn more about SOAR's distribution methods and quality control protocol.