Seven students of Vanadzor’s Vahe Meliksetyan School No. 28 will receive scholarships.
The Vahe Meliksetyan Educational-Medical Foundation awards the annual nominal scholarships to talented graduating students of Vanadzor’s Vahe Meliksetyan School No. 28.
Over the past five years, the Foundation has provided scholarships totaling 6,600,000 AMD to 33 student-beneficiaries.
This year’s 7 scholarship recipients are:
- Davit Poghosyan
- Grigori Vardanyan
- Anna Sahakyan
- Samvel Grigoryan
- Milena Hovasapyan
- Yana Hovhannisyan
- Natali Shakaryan
Monthly scholarships of 20.000 AMD will be provided throughout the 2025-2026 academic year.
The Foundation’s Executive Director, Sargis Meliksetyan, noted that the Foundation values education, whether school or university level. He also expressed his gratitude to all of the Foundation’s supporters, particularly the IMAST platform, for their support in fundraising for the Foundation’s scholarship project.
Hayk Hayrapetyan, founder and CEO of the IMAST app, believes that Armenia’s future will change significantly if the attitudes of students, teachers, and all citizens toward education change, and that such initiatives are the path to making it happen. When the best students are not labeled for their pursuit of excellence but instead valued and seen as role models, true transformation will begin.
In April 2021, Vanadzor School No. 28 was renamed in honor of the clinical pharmacist, YSMU lecturer, a hero of the 44-Day Artsakh War, and gold medal graduate of the same school – Vahe Meliksetyan.
The Vahe Meliksetyan Foundation was established in 2021 with the aim of developing clinical pharmacy in Armenia. Its mission is to fulfill the professional dream of clinical pharmacist Vahe Meliksetyan, who fell in the 2020 Artsakh War. Over the past four years, VMF has invested more than 41 million AMD in the educational and scientific research sectors of RA.
IMAST is the first charity app in Armenia. It was launched in 2023 by social entrepreneur Hayk Hayrapetyan, based on an idea that was born back in 2020 during the Second Artsakh War, when Hayk realized that Armenians and the diaspora needed a platform to support impactful Armenian initiatives whenever they had the will and capacity to do so.
