ապագաa·pa·ga — noun · Armenian for “future”
The boom is here. The children aren’t in it yet.
Armenia is building a $4B AI supercomputing hub and teaching AI in public high schools. The Orran AI Fund makes sure the country’s most vulnerable children are not left out of the future being built around them.
One child · one lab seat · one future
ԹվաբանությունThe arithmetic of escape
One skill changes one generation. For a child growing up in poverty, a coding job is the single highest-leverage escape available in Armenia, and the demand side is already built: a national AI strategy, AI in school curricula, and a tech sector growing 20% a year. The bottleneck is who gets to learn.
Sources: UNICEF Armenia · Eurasianet (Firebird AI hub) · EVN Report (tech-sector data)
ՈւսուցումWhat we teach
Real skills, in order.
This is not an app on a tablet. It is Orran’s real workshop, opened in 2024 with robotics kits and a working engineer teaching it, growing into a four-year track.
Foundations
Years 1–2Typing, computer basics, Scratch, and the robotics kits already running in the 2024 workshop.
Building
Years 2–3Python, microcontrollers (ESP32), web basics. Children build things their families use.
AI literacy
Years 3–4Data literacy, how models learn, hands-on projects with real datasets, responsible use of AI. Mapped to UNESCO's AI competency framework for students.
The pipeline
ExitGraduates continue into TUMO, Generation AI high-school tracks, university CS programs, or Orran's own apprenticeships.
Մեկ տեղSponsor a seat
You are not funding a concept. You are funding a chair, a laptop, and the child sitting there.
$40 / month
A seat in the lab
One child's place in the workshop: laptop time, curriculum, and a mentor. You'll see what the cohort builds.
Sponsor a seat$500
Keep the lab running
A serious contribution toward the workshop's running costs: instructor time, electricity, equipment repair.
Support the lab$5,000
A cohort year
A full year for a 12-student cohort. Named recognition, and a report on where every student lands.
Fund a cohortEvery sponsor receives an annual report on the cohort: attendance, projects built, and where graduates land. We publish our outcomes.
ՀարցերFair questions
Why not just fund TUMO?
TUMO is extraordinary, and our graduates feed into it. But the most vulnerable children rarely make it through any door on their own: hunger, family crisis, and distance come first. Orran is where those children already are, six days a week, fed and steady. The AI Fund is last-mile inclusion for the kids every other program misses.
Is 'AI' a buzzword here?
The curriculum is nouns: Scratch, Python, robotics kits, data literacy, responsible use of AI, aligned to UNESCO's AI competency framework for students. Children build things, they don't just prompt things.
How do I know it works?
The same way you know the rest of Orran works: 26 years of audited operations, 300+ apprenticeship graduates earning a living, and a commitment to publish this program's outcomes, cohort by cohort.
Questions about naming the lab? Write to orran@orran.org