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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/ 30 October, 2008


    Hayastan All Armenian Fund Sets in Motion Activities to Raise Funds for
    Telethon 2008

    Yerevan, October 28, 2008 - With the Hayastan Fund fundraising telethon to
    take place on November 27, Thanksgiving Day, the Fund's executive board has
    been implementing a number of promotional activities, including some new
    ones, which inform the public of the forthcoming telethon and intend to
    increase public participation in varied projects of the Fund. These
    improvements include the recently concluded agreement with Haypost CJSC,
    press conferences, presentations in educational institutions on the Fund's
    past and current activities, dissemination of flyers and other promotional
    materials heralding the forthcoming telethon and the Fund's current course
    of activities through electronic and printed media, as well well-visited
    business and service sector establishments.

    The agreement with the Haypost CJSC promotes a more accessible mechanism of
    donation on the territory of Armenia to start with. The idea is to make
    people, including the youth, more aware of the Hayastan Fund's initiatives
    so far and inform of the projects and areas it can tackle. The message is
    that if given the support of every single Armenian who can access Haypost
    offices across Armenia, the Fund can implement many more vital projects for
    us and our generations to come.

    This activity will strengthen the idea of small and medium-size donations
    during the months proceeding and following the annual telethon. Thanks to it
    small donations will no longer be considered a sensitive issue. The
    mechanism will encourage donations made by ordinary people who wish to bring
    their share into the "big basket". It is believed that many more items of
    infrastructure - gas and water lines, school and hospitals, roads in
    Armenian and Karabakh will be upgraded, thanks to the support and
    partnership of Haypost within this initiative.

    In the press conference held on October 27 in the Golden Tulip Hotel,
    founders of the Gallery of Funds announced about their wish to donate
    proceeds from the closing concert of the Second Return Classic Music
    Festival to Telethon 2008. Stephen Prutsmen, piano (USA) and Suren
    Bagratuni, celloi (USA), accompanied by the Armenia State Chamber Orchestra
    conducted by Aram Gharabekyan made a memorable appearance at the
    above-mentioned concert.
    Hrant Tokhatyan and Armen Hambartsumanyan, producers of the show "Mea Culpa"
    also made a public announcement in the October 28 press conference of their
    wish to donate proceeds from shows run on November 3, 4 and 5 to Telethon
    2008. Gyumri theatre is among the cultural establishment supporting the Fund's
    fundraising activity; proceeds of the series of William Shakespeare shows
    will be directed to Telethon 2008 too.

    "Armenians are all over the world, and it is important that, though
    scattered around the globe, they get together to make the dream of a
    developed and sustainable country happen. I believe people will be attracted
    to participate in the Fund's telethon, to later feel proud of the fact that
    they had their input in the newly built or reconstructed infrastructure
    supporting a school, a hospital, a monastery or a resident house", says the
    Hayastan Fund Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan.

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    Hayastan All Armenian Fund
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