The household of the 16-year-old Lowell woman who took her personal life after being bullied has began a scholarship to “spread kindness everywhere and keep her memory alive.”
More than 4 years after Anna Aslanian died a couple of days following her sixteenth party, the Lowell household has arrange the Anna Aslanian Memorial Scholarship fund.
Her mom, Itea, instructed the Herald that the household needs to honor her daughter’s reminiscence by serving to college students pursue their passions after they graduate highschool.
“Anna was so full of life and love, always walking around smiling and always giving to other people,” Itea stated this week. “We wish to proceed that, and unfold kindness all over the place and preserve her reminiscence alive.
“Even though she’s not here, this will be a constant reminder that this is what she stood for — bringing positivity and kindness and support,” the mom added.
The Lowell High School sophomore had hidden the extent of the bullying she was experiencing. Her dad and mom discovered about it in a letter after she died. She was overwhelmed down and had no shallowness left, Anna wrote.
Ever because the tragedy occurred in the course of the fall of 2018, the group has given a lot to the Aslanian household, Itea emphasised.
“The outpouring of support…” Itea stated, trailing off. “I cry simply enthusiastic about it. I don’t know the place we’d be with out the help of our group.
“Every time I turned around, someone was reaching out to me and offering to share Anna’s story,” she added. “It’s brought a lot of awareness to mental health, which really wasn’t talked about as much as it should have been four years ago.”
After all that group help, the household needed to offer again, resulting in this scholarship.
While Anna attended Lowell High School, her household determined to arrange the scholarship at Greater Lowell Technical High School in Tyngsboro — the place Anna’s three brothers attend college.
Greater Lowell Tech presents each school paths and hands-on profession paths, together with a cosmetology program, which was a serious curiosity for the 16-year-old woman.
“Anna was crazy over cosmetics, and she wanted to go to college in New York and pursue something with makeup,” Itea stated. “She loved it. She was really great at it.”
With the scholarship, the household needs to assist college students who’re in want and provides them a supportive push after highschool.
The preliminary purpose is elevating near $5,000 within the first 12 months, which could go to at least one scholar or may get cut up in two for a pair college students.
“We could give half of the fund to one student with a collegiate path and half to a student with a career path, who might be starting their own business,” Itea stated. “If we could raise that, it’d be a really good place for us to start, and hopefully we can continue to grow it every year.”
Those who want to donate to the Anna Aslanian Memorial Scholarship fund are requested to make checks out to GL Tech and mail them to GL Tech, ATTN: Denise Dupont (in reminiscence of Anna Aslanian), 250 Pawtucket Blvd., Tyngsboro, MA 01879.
Source: www.bostonherald.com”