UAC’s Orphaned Teen Scholarship Program is a sponsor based initiative with a family focus.

Orphanage graduates are released into a world for which they are ill-equipped to survive on their own. These young people are at-risk for prostitution, human trafficking, drug abuse and suicide. They are stigmatized and considered outcasts in the very society that abandoned them as children.

Our program supports orphanage graduates from the Odessa region as they transition from institutionalized life to a university or vocational school. Scholarship Program participants receive:

• Guidance and moral support from UAC staff and sponsors
• Academic and career planning
• Medical and dental care
• Assistance securing housing
• Legal aid
• School supplies
• A monthly stipend ($50) to help with living expenses