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DARBNIK COMMUNITY CENTER BUILT WITH U.S. FUNDS
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-11-28-darbnik-community-center-built-with-u-s--funds-
Published: Wednesday November 28, 2012
Young people of Darbnik. UNHCR file photo
Repatriate-settled Darbnik village gets U.S. help for school
infrastructure
YEREVAN - The Darbnik community in the Ararat province has a large
ethnic Armenian refugee population from Iraq and Azerbaijan. On
November 16, U.S. Ambassador John A. Heffern and the U.S. Embassy's
Office of Defense Cooperation joined Mayor Azat Khachatryan and
community members at a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completed
renovation of the local community center.
This center will serve as a focal point for the town's residents,
providing healthcare services and a social meeting space. The U.S.
European Command Office of Defense Cooperation Humanitarian Assistance
project contributed $245,000 to the renovation effort, which includes
new walls, windows and doors, upgraded heating, electrical and plumbing
systems, and a repaired roof.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversaw the project and CESCO
Corporation, a local Armenian construction company, performed the
renovations. For more information on the U.S. Embassy's Office of
Defense Cooperation and the U.S. European Command, please visit:
http://armenia.usembassy.gov/odc.html.
The U.S. Embassy previously helped renovate the Darbnik school
facilities.
Just ten miles from Yerevan, Darbnik was previously known as Malye
Demurchi and was an Azerbaijani-populated village until November 1988.
Today, Darbnik has a population of about 1,000 most of them Armenians
who fled Azerbaijan in 1988-90 and more recently also by Armenian
families displaced from Iraq.
http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2012-11-28-darbnik-community-center-built-with-u-s--funds-
Published: Wednesday November 28, 2012
Young people of Darbnik. UNHCR file photo
Repatriate-settled Darbnik village gets U.S. help for school
infrastructure
YEREVAN - The Darbnik community in the Ararat province has a large
ethnic Armenian refugee population from Iraq and Azerbaijan. On
November 16, U.S. Ambassador John A. Heffern and the U.S. Embassy's
Office of Defense Cooperation joined Mayor Azat Khachatryan and
community members at a ribbon cutting ceremony to mark the completed
renovation of the local community center.
This center will serve as a focal point for the town's residents,
providing healthcare services and a social meeting space. The U.S.
European Command Office of Defense Cooperation Humanitarian Assistance
project contributed $245,000 to the renovation effort, which includes
new walls, windows and doors, upgraded heating, electrical and plumbing
systems, and a repaired roof.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers oversaw the project and CESCO
Corporation, a local Armenian construction company, performed the
renovations. For more information on the U.S. Embassy's Office of
Defense Cooperation and the U.S. European Command, please visit:
http://armenia.usembassy.gov/odc.html.
The U.S. Embassy previously helped renovate the Darbnik school
facilities.
Just ten miles from Yerevan, Darbnik was previously known as Malye
Demurchi and was an Azerbaijani-populated village until November 1988.
Today, Darbnik has a population of about 1,000 most of them Armenians
who fled Azerbaijan in 1988-90 and more recently also by Armenian
families displaced from Iraq.