The Organization for the Defense of Lemkivshchyna (OOL) is offering scholarship awards for the 2025-2026 academic year. Successful applicants will each receive a scholarship of $500.
To qualify you must meet the following requirements:
- Be of Lemko ancestry.
- Be enrolled as a full-time student in any year (i.e., freshman through senior) of an undergraduate program or trade school.
- Be a member of OOL (applying for OOL membership in parallel is allowed).
- Be a legal U.S. resident.
- Submit a 500-word essay on one of the provided essay topics.
- How do you believe that your generation can continue to promote Lemko Ukrainian culture so that it continues to thrive?
- Is there someone Lemko (whether that be a well-known figure like a poet or musician or someone from your personal life) who has inspired you, and why?
- What are your thoughts on how Russia’s war in Ukraine impacts you and/or other Lemko Ukrainians around the world?
Submission Deadline is August 1, 2025