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  • All-Armenian Fund 3 Projects Officially Opened in Nagorno Karabakh

    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/

    26 September, 2008


    Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Three Projects Officially Opened in Nagorno
    Karabakh

    Yerevan, September 26, 2008 - Opening ceremonies of the Hayastan Fund three
    projects - Togh School, Hadrut and Spitakashen water mains followed each
    other in Nagorno Karabakh on September 23 and 24.

    Students of the Togh school have started the new academic year in improved
    conditions. The two-storey building of the school, severely damaged in the
    1988-1992 conflict, is now standing new and welcoming. Today some 100
    students attend the school. Years later, today's sixteen first-graders'
    lasting memory of their school will be of an attractive place to study at
    and a good number of accomplishments.

    <I believe this school will be a stimulus both for the students and the
    teachers to do even better", said Ara Vardanyan in his speech.

    The upgraded part of the school has enough space and facilities to also
    accommodate children from the neighboring communities of Jrakuis,
    Mariamadzor, Taghut, Tsakuri Hakaku, Mokhrenes, and Tumi. Not only the
    classrooms are now well-lit and clean, they are nicely furnished and will be
    heated during the winter months. Renovation of the left block of the Togh
    School (around US 139 million AMD) was funded within the Artsakh Rebirth
    Project and was carried out through the Hayastan Fund Western Region
    Affiliate with direct contribution from the AGBU Manoogian-Demirdjian school
    students and parents.

    Among those attending the opening ceremony were the Nagorno Karabakh Prime
    Minister Araik Harutyunyan, Head of the Hadrut Administration Valerik
    Gevorkyan, Hayastan Fund Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan, Western
    Region Affiliate Executive Director Sargis Kotanjian, Minister of Civil
    Construction Anahit Vardanyan employees of the Fund, contractors and
    others.

    "One thing that is special about this project is that the school has been
    renovated with the money collected by students and their parents of a
    similar school", said Sargis Kotanjian addressing the participants of the
    ceremony.

    "Now when we are implementing reforms to integrate into the international
    educational system, our school will undoubtedly meet the necessary
    standards. The laboratories of physics, chemistry, and informatics are
    adequately equipped and a great help to the teaching staff in the teaching
    process. We wouldn't even dream about it a few years ago", said the School
    Principal Vladimir Ghahryan.

    Following the opening ceremony of the Togh School, the officials left for
    Hadrut to attend the opening ceremony of the Togh-Hadrut water main. "We
    realize how important water supply is in most parts of Nagorno-Karabakh",
    said the Fund Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan.The Hadrut city water
    main project with the total cost of around 420 million AMD was implemented
    within the Telethon 2006, and was mainly sponsored by the Fund's French
    local committee. Within the project a 22 km water pipe was installed from
    Arjaghbyur to Hadrut. Thanks to the project, water is run by gravity now and
    it will provide the city households will much needed water of a better
    quality.

    Construction of the Kaghartsin-Spitakashen 8 km long water main will provide
    water to the Spitakashen community of around 470. The project worth about 80
    million AMD was sponsored by the Hayastan Fund Argentine local committee.
    During the opening ceremony all the villagers expressed their gratitude to
    Armenians in Argentine for their generous support.

    The Hadrut regional hospital and the gas supply will be completed by the end
    of the year. Construction of schools in Spitakasken and Chartar villages
    will start next month. The water supply project in Berdashen is already
    underway.


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