OSCE Office opens training centre to help reduce unemployment in Arm

[Madatian Greg]

Organization for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (OSCE)
http://www.osce.org/
Sept 7 2006



OSCE Office opens training centre to help reduce unemployment in
Armenia

YEREVAN, 6 September 2006 - Reducing unemployment in Armenia's Ararat
province is the aim of a training Centre that opened in the village
of Zorak today.

Supported by the OSCE Office in Yerevan and financed by the Italian
Government, the Centre will be run by the local non-governmental
organization Agrari Farmers' Union. It will provide computer and
Internet classes, offer entrepreneurship training, courses on the
fight against corruption and civic education, and host a library with
books on human rights, elections, the basics of small business and
anti-corruption issues.

"The Centre will help reduce poverty in the area and help refugees
and other vulnerable local residents integrate in a rapidly
developing job market," said Ambassador Vladimir Pryakhin, Head of
the OSCE Office in Yerevan. "This initiative also contributes to the
implementation of the Armenian Government's rural poverty eradication
programme."

The Centre will serve the villages of Zorak, Hayanist, Nizami,
Sayat-Nova and Demirchi.