Northwest for Underrepresented Regions
FOR A BETTER WORLD
OUR IMPACT
Education is liberation from poverty. With this in mind, NUR decided to contact El Hogar (The Home), a school in Honduras, to ask what they need most to keep children in school and off the streets. Their answer was simple: shoes. In the United States, shoes are a staple that may not be difficult for most to secure, but in Honduras shoes can make or break a child. For example, many times children cannot attend school because their school might be located ten miles away and their only means of transportation are their feet. Those who do attend school barefoot are at risk of injury, disease and soil-transmited infections. Basically, if these children do not have shoes, they cannot get educated and realize their
NUR takes great pride in enabling a passionate, hard-working young man, Harutyun Arakelyan, to bring a bronze medal for the community in Gyumri! The success that Harutyun reached through the help of our donors serves as a model for other young students in Gyumri. With a family of five (parents and two sisters), Harutyun, kept on working hard despite his parents being unemployed. His hard work under difficult conditions paid off in Limassol, Cyprus, where he raised the Armenian flag in the European Championships of the Sambo event by winning the bronze. His achievement made a large impact not only on Harutyun himself, but on the entire community at home who was emphatically supporting his efforts. NUR would like to thank all of our donors who made this young man's dream come true and made such an indescribable impact in his community.
potential to change the world. After learning of this need, NUR immediately connected with its network of friends, family, church members, and co-workers to help collect new or gently used shoes for this cause. NUR also decided they wanted to collect baby clothes and nursery essentials to help young families provide a better start for their newborn. In the end NUR was able to collect 100 pairs of shoes and 450 articles of baby clothes, which were delivered in person to El Hogar (The Home).
