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:

1. Be of Lemko ancestry.
2. Be enrolled as a full-time student in any year (i.e., freshman through senior) of an undergraduate program or trade school.
3. Be a member of OOL (applying for OOL membership in parallel is allowed).
4. Be a legal U.S. resident.
5. Submit a 500-word essay on one of the provided essay topics.
   1. How do you believe that your generation can continue to promote Lemko Ukrainian culture so that it continues to thrive?
   2. 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?
   3. 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