Solidarity with students in exile: the UGA Foundation launches a fundraising campaign to respond to the emergency in Afghanistan and Ukraine

March 18, 2022
In order to provide the best possible conditions for students who have had to flee their countries ravaged by war or conflict, the UGA Foundation launched a "Students in Exile" fund in early 2022. This fund will award scholarships to enable these young people to join theUniversité Grenoble Alpes UGA) to continue their studies. In response to the recent emergency, the UGA Foundation launched a public campaign in early March. Already, €18,000 has been raised to supplement the €80,000 already mobilized by the founders of the UGA Foundation.
The UGA Foundation's "Students in Exile" fund finances scholarships that have already enabled two Afghan female students and one Afghan male student to prove their financial resources and obtain visas to come to France and study atUniversité Grenoble Alpes UGA).
 
With the tragic events in Ukraine, the implementation of this program for students in exile is more crucial than ever and is in line with the values of solidarity and mutual aid upheld by the UGA Foundation and the entire scientific and academic community in Grenoble.
 
To ensure the fund's long-term viability, the UGA Foundation has already raised €80,000 thanks to the support of its founding partners. However, in order to accommodate more students and meet urgent needs, a fundraising campaign targeting the general public and corporate partners was launched in March with a target of €50,000.
 
Everyone can contribute in their own way to supporting students in exile, in keeping with the tradition of hospitality upheld by academic institutions, by making a donation to the UGA Foundation.
 
For its part, UGA will support these students in the best possible conditions within the university's international student reception facilities, enabling them to continue the studies they had to interrupt in their own countries.
 
"Afghanistan and now Ukraine are going through some crazy times. We really need to step up and welcome these Afghan and Ukrainian students in the best way we can so they can keep studying at a French university. Right now, they've had to suddenly stop their studies, their daily lives, their whole lives. We absolutely must help them because they are the hope of their countries. It is these exceptional talents that will be crucial in rebuilding countries plunged into the abyss of war." emphasizes Homaira Nawabi, patron of the Students in Exile Fund, originally from Afghanistan, Inserm research fellow and head of a research team at theGrenoble Institute of Neuroscience (GIN - CEA, Inserm, UGA).
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Published on March 18, 2022
Updated on April 4, 2022