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    6 ARMENIAN NGOs TO RECEIVE GRANTS

    YEREVAN, MAY 9, NOYAN TAPAN. Six Armenian non-profit NGOs will receive
    grants of the World Bank and the Open Society Institute Assistance Fund
    for implementation of programs aimed at promoting civil involvement, NT
    correspondent was informed by the WB Yerevan Office.

    "We Plus" NGO will receive a grant for increasing the awareness of
    voters at the elections to local government bodies to be held in Gyumri
    in late 2008.

    The Armenian-French Development Fund will use its grant to help with
    social integration of the leavers of special schools for children with
    hearing defects, while Sustainable Water Environment NGO will promote
    the participation of young people in solution of environmental
    problems, in particular, it will assist students of Vanadzor and
    Dilijan higher educational institutions to get knowledge about
    environmental protection.

    The Field of Education NGO will examine the problems of secondary
    schools in Shirak marz, while "SKARP" Health Center NGO will help with
    social integration of young people with problems of the locomotor
    system.

    Lawyers for Human Rights orhanization has received a grant in order to
    increase rural residents' information about the activities of local
    government bodies.

    Over the past 10 years, 53 local NGOs have received grants of a total
    of 491 thousand dollars.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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