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The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative Announces Scholarship for Yazidi Students
YEREVAN—The Aurora Humanitarian Initiative recently announced a new annual scholarship for Yazidi students, established in partnership with renowned Yazidi human rights activist Lamya Haji Bashar. It is the latest addition to the Gratitude Scholarship Program, a $7 million initiative established in gratitude to the people from countries who offered shelter and food to those displaced by the Armenian Genocide more than a century ago.
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Wonderful tribute to Yazidi young people. I’d like to share a family story. The village of KERAMET near Lake Iznik in the Bursa Province of the OTTOMAN EMPIRE/TURKEY was deeply scarred by the Genocide also. Faron was fifteen years old when the Genocide began. My father, Sarkis (aka “Deli” Sarkis) was her first cousin. She was engaged to be married but her fiancé died and during the Genocide Faron walked through Syria and made it to the Yazidi heartland of the Sinjar in MESOPOTAMIA. Along with other orphaned Armenian children Faron was taken in by the Yazidis and kept safe for three years until the First World War ended. He brother came for her and took her to Bulgaria. The Yazidis adamantly refused to turn over Armenian children to the Turks and eternal gratitude from our family goes out to them.
Ellen Sarkisian Chesnut
Author: “Deli Sarkis: The Scars he Carried”
A Good Christian Deed!