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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/

    31 March, 2009

    Hayastan All Armenian Fund continues rebuilding water-supply system of
    Artsakh's Berdashen Village

    Yerevan, March 31, 2009 - The Hayastan All Armenian Fund announces that
    reconstruction of the water-supply system in Berdashen, a village in Nagorno
    Karabakh's Martuni Region, continues on schedule.

    The project, worth 210 million drams (U.S. $555,000), is financed jointly by
    the Hayastan All Armenian Fund's Argentinean affiliate and the government of
    Nagorno Karabakh. Major support for the initiative, which was launched in
    late 2008, was provided by Argentinean-Armenian benefactors Alicia
    Vosgerichian de Magarian, Hovsep Magarian, and Varujan Panossian, in honor
    of Takvor Magarian and Nvart Terzian Magarian.

    Berdashen's water-supply system, which was built in the 1960s, has long been
    in a state of disrepair. Through the Hayastan All Armenian Fund project, the
    pump station has been renovated, cancer-causing asbestos pipes have been
    replaced with plastic ones, and a 3.6-kilometer pipeline has been built,
    already supplying Berdashen with water. Currently the next phase of the
    initiative, the building of the internal water-distribution network, is
    underway. When this leg of the project is completed by autumn 2009, all
    1,500 residents of Berdashen will receive a regular supply of water.

    "We are delighted for being able to address many of the urgent issues
    affecting the Martuni Region and helping improve the lives of the
    population," said Ara Vardanyan, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund's acting
    executive director. "I think the Berdashen project is a wonderful way to
    keep Takvor Magarian's and Nvart Terzian Magarian's memory alive."

    To date, the Hayastan All Armenian Fund's Argentinean affiliate has
    sponsored some 20 vital projects in Artsakh, mainly in the educational
    sphere. The affiliate's most recent initiatives include the construction, in
    2008, of an eight-kilometer water pipeline for Spitakashen, another village
    in the Martuni Region.
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