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    U.S. ENVOY VISITED USAID-SUPPORTED PROJECTS IN CHARENTSAVAN

    LRAGIR.AM
    18:08:26 - 21/04/2009

    As part of her regional tour to Kotayk Marz on April 21, 2009,
    U.S. Ambassador to Armenia Marie L. Yovanovitch visited the
    USAID-supported Armenian EyeCare Project and Soup Kitchen in
    Charentsavan, accompanied by town Mayor Hakob Shahgaldyan, U.S. Embassy
    and USAID/Armenia representatives.

    USAID has partnered with the Diaspora-founded Armenian EyeCare
    Project (AECP) since 2004. The project's mission is to eliminate
    preventable blindness and make eye care accessible to all people in
    Armenia. Ambassador Yovanovitch visited the project's state-of-the-art
    Mobile Eye Hospital, stationed at the Charentsavan hospital, and
    conversed with project doctors and community members waiting for
    their examination or surgical treatment. During the last AECP visit
    to Charentsavan in 2007, 156 adults and 343 children were screened
    for eye problems, and 90 patients were then referred to Mobile Eye
    Hospital for detailed eye examination. AECP also provided 72 pairs
    of glasses and performed surgeries for 28 vulnerable people.

    The U.S. envoy then visited the USAID-supported Charentsavan
    Community Center and Soup Kitchen - one of 25 Day Centers operated
    across Armenia by the Mission Armenia NGO. Operating since 2004, the
    center in Charentsavan offers a broad range of services to the town's
    197 most vulnerable residents, including the elderly, the disabled,
    refugees residing in temporary dwellings, families with many children
    and the unemployed. The facility provides a hot meal once a day,
    five days a week, social and health services (including home visits)
    and arranges vocational training courses for vulnerable community
    members. Ambassador Yovanovitch toured the facility, joined the
    elderly for lunch and observed the eye screening and public health
    talk, conducted by AECP doctors for the center's visitors.
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