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    YOUNG PROFESSIONALS GO GREEN BY UNITING WORLDWIDE TO BUILD A PARK IN KHACHIK, ARMENIA

    AZG DAILY
    28-01-2011

    After 18 months of preparation and planning, the AGBU Young
    Professionals (YP) Network recently completed the development and
    implementation of its first pan-YP project to build a park in the
    rural village of Khachik, Armenia. Flexing their global muscle for
    the very first time, ten YP Groups and YP Partner organizations from
    four continents participated, including YP Buenos Aires, YP Brazil,
    YP Greater New York, YP Los Angeles, YP Marseille, YP Northern
    California, YP Philadelphia, YP Toronto, YP Yerevan, and HAIK in
    Frankfurt, Germany, in cooperation with the Center for Agribusiness
    and Rural Development (CARD), AGBU press office reports.

    With international cooperation as a main priority, the project was
    initiated in July 2009 during the AGBU Young Professionals Biennial
    Assembly held in Chicago over AGBU FOCUS weekend. Worldwide YP
    representatives concluded that the time had come to pool their
    resources as a cohesive whole for Armenia. Breaking new ground, the
    AGBU Young Professionals decided to launch an environmental project
    which would be conceived, funded, and developed entirely by them. As a
    result of this initiative, the new park will now provide a green space
    of beauty and relaxation for the 300 families of Khachik to enjoy;
    the park is expected to also help attract visitors and tourists,
    thus providing a future source of income for residents.

    With the funds raised by the YP Groups in the diaspora and project
    implementation in Khachik overseen by YP Yerevan, this unified effort
    by the YP Network sets an exemplary model that cooperation reaps
    results to create a more positive future for the people of Armenia.

    Throughout 2010, several groups organized benefit events dedicated
    specifically to the project, including YP Northern California's
    signature Winter Gala (www.agbusfgala.org), YP Los Angeles' St.

    Patrick's Day Mixer, YP Toronto's Noir & Blanche Soiree, YP Marseille's
    Bio Fair, and HAIK's Classical Summer Concert.

    In addition to the new park, there have been other development
    initiatives underway in Khachik recently. Providing its residents
    much-needed exposure and a connection to the outside world, YP Yerevan,
    in cooperation with CARD, built an Information Center in Khachik's
    village hall in April 2010, furnishing it with computers and Internet
    access. Less than a kilometer outside Khachik, a 9th-century church
    is also being renovated by the Ministry of Culture and UNESCO.




    From: A. Papazian
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