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    NORWEGIAN REFUGEE COUNCIL
    50 Khanjian Str., Yerevan 375010, Armenia
    Tel: (3741) 551582, 571798
    Fax: (3741) 574639
    E-mail: [email protected]
    URL: www.nrc.am

    PRESS RELEASE

    The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) is a non-governmental, humanitarian
    organization that has worked actively for more than 50 years to create a
    safer and more dignified life for refugees and internally displaced persons
    (IDPs), regardless of their race, religion, nationality or political
    convictions. We work for the rights of refugees and IDPs, assisting with
    food, shelter and education - and offering counseling on repatriation.

    In Armenia, NRC has invested more that 10 million USD in refugee-targeted
    projects since 1995. These include primarily housing construction, but also
    school construction and rehabilitation, construction of drinking and
    irrigation water pipelines, as well as human rights education and an IDP
    mapping survey. So far, NRC has provided new homes for nearly 1000 refugee
    families in Armenia.
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    On February 8-th The Norwegian Refugee Council handed over 18 keys to new
    stone houses to refugee families in the villages of Deghdzut, Kanachut,
    Noyakert and Sis in Ararat marz. For the past 14 years all the families had
    lived in uninhabitable constructions, like old school building, bathhouse,
    metal containers, half-constructed houses in miserable conditions.
    Each house will have a plot of land for gardens.

    The project was completed in cooperation with the Department of Migration
    and Refugees and Ararat Marzpet's office and village mayors.For construction
    of house in Sis village a completely new design was developed toghether with
    USDA Experts.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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