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    PRESS RELEASE
    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
    Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
    Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
    Tel: +(3741) 56 01 06 ext. 105
    Fax: +(3741) 52 15 05
    E-mail: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.himnadram.org/

    14 July, 2008

    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Launches Khashtarak School Renovation Project

    Yerevan, July 10, 2008 - Hayastan All-Armenian Fund is pleased to announce
    the launch of Khashtarak school renovation and refurbishment, an initiative
    that was on the waiting list for priorities in Tavush region for years. The
    project of around 154 million AMD is jointly financed by the Hayastan
    All-Armenian Fund Germany, Swiss, French affiliates and the Association of
    Armenian Entrepreneurs in Germany "Armenischer Unternehmer Verein".
    The German community had made this commitment prior to the Armenia Fund 2007
    Telethon. "Together with all other aspects of infrastructure schools must be
    upgraded so that we can reduce or remove the gap between city and village,"
    had said Gilbert Momdjian, Chairman of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
    Affiliate of Germany at that time. "By undertaking the Khashtarak School
    renovation project, the Fund has set out to provide top-notch educational
    facilities in rural communities." Gilbert Momdjian who has headed the
    Germany affiliate of the Hayastan fund for over fifteen years now, says he
    is looking forward to seeing a rewarding school environment for teachers and
    students to teach and study in.
    Currently the building is undergoing dismantling and preparatory works for
    the actual renovation works to start. Within the project the three and
    two-storied blocks of the school building including the sport and concert
    halls will undergo full restoration. Construction of a new boiler will be
    accompanied with the restoration of the old one to fully meet the school
    heating needs. With full gasification of the community on the way the school
    will be satisfactorily heated in winter months. The area around the school
    will be upgraded too. A renovated school is expected to be in place by June
    2009.

    The two-storied building of the school is expected to be finished before the
    academic year starts in September, so that students and teachers are able to
    move in until the three-storied building is completed. Currently the school
    has 251 students; the renovated building is designed to accommodate another
    349. So with the whole building in place, it will also accommodate students
    from Lusahovit, located 8 kms away from Khashtarak.

    Within the current project, the school will be fully refurbished and be in
    the best position to conduct both required classes and extracurricular
    activities.

    Arthur Mardoyan, the project contractor (Ijevan born) says that children and
    adults are truly excited that the community of around 1900 will have a new
    school in the near future.

    "We should expand the practice of jointly funding projects from different
    sources, as this enables us to implement large-scale infrastructural
    projects," the Fund's Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan states.

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    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
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