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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 January, 2012
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund launches construction of kindergarten in Martuni
Region's Sos Village
Project is yet another education-sector initiative made possible by
French-Armenian community
Yerevan, January 26, 2012 - The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has begun
construction of a kindergarten in Sos, a village in Artsakh's Martuni
Region. The project is co-sponsored by the fund's French affiliate and the
government of Artsakh.
The future kindergarten will be a two-story structure designed to
accommodate up to 50 children. The first floor will comprise a locker room,
naprooms, restrooms, a kitchen, a laundry, and storage rooms; the second
floor will consist of playrooms, an events hall, and a gym. The facility
will also feature a sizeable playground. Currently crews are laying the
foundations of the kindergarten, which is slated to open in Fall 2012.
In the meantime preschoolers in Sos will continue to attend the community's
existing kindergarten, which was built in the 1970s. The campus is in a
state of serious disrepair and lacks some of the core amenities required of
a modern educational institution, among them central heating and even a
sewage-disposal system.
Due to the dilapidated condition of the old campus, some families have opted
altogether not to send their children to the kindergarten, according to Sos
mayor Igor Ghahramanyan.
Commenting on the construction of the future kindergarten, the mayor
reiterated his community's great joy and anticipation, given the imminent
availability of a spacious and comfortable kindergarten featuring
state-of-the-art amenities.
Sos is the site of another major development project, the construction of a
critically needed potable-water network, which the Hayastan All-Armenian
Fund implemented in 2010 with the co-sponsorship of the French-Armenian
community and the government of Artsakh. Thanks to the initiative, the
residents of Sos have since enjoyed around-the-clock access to water.
"Our hope is that such projects will vastly improve prospects of economic
and social development in the village of Sos, which flanks the main road to
the Amaras Monastery complex," said Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. "In this respect, our high praise goes to our
French affiliate, for its consistent support of preschool-building
initiatives in Artsakh. One of these is the soon-to-be-completed
construction of a kindergarten in Drakhtik, a village in the Hadrut Region."
Sos, which traces its history to the 1700s, is home to 1,040 residents. The
community's main occupations are cattlebreeding and winemaking. The local
agricultural-machinery park, established in recent years in Sos village, has
gone a long way to improve farming productivity, Ghahramanyan said.
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 January, 2012
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund launches construction of kindergarten in Martuni
Region's Sos Village
Project is yet another education-sector initiative made possible by
French-Armenian community
Yerevan, January 26, 2012 - The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund has begun
construction of a kindergarten in Sos, a village in Artsakh's Martuni
Region. The project is co-sponsored by the fund's French affiliate and the
government of Artsakh.
The future kindergarten will be a two-story structure designed to
accommodate up to 50 children. The first floor will comprise a locker room,
naprooms, restrooms, a kitchen, a laundry, and storage rooms; the second
floor will consist of playrooms, an events hall, and a gym. The facility
will also feature a sizeable playground. Currently crews are laying the
foundations of the kindergarten, which is slated to open in Fall 2012.
In the meantime preschoolers in Sos will continue to attend the community's
existing kindergarten, which was built in the 1970s. The campus is in a
state of serious disrepair and lacks some of the core amenities required of
a modern educational institution, among them central heating and even a
sewage-disposal system.
Due to the dilapidated condition of the old campus, some families have opted
altogether not to send their children to the kindergarten, according to Sos
mayor Igor Ghahramanyan.
Commenting on the construction of the future kindergarten, the mayor
reiterated his community's great joy and anticipation, given the imminent
availability of a spacious and comfortable kindergarten featuring
state-of-the-art amenities.
Sos is the site of another major development project, the construction of a
critically needed potable-water network, which the Hayastan All-Armenian
Fund implemented in 2010 with the co-sponsorship of the French-Armenian
community and the government of Artsakh. Thanks to the initiative, the
residents of Sos have since enjoyed around-the-clock access to water.
"Our hope is that such projects will vastly improve prospects of economic
and social development in the village of Sos, which flanks the main road to
the Amaras Monastery complex," said Ara Vardanyan, executive director of the
Hayastan All-Armenian Fund. "In this respect, our high praise goes to our
French affiliate, for its consistent support of preschool-building
initiatives in Artsakh. One of these is the soon-to-be-completed
construction of a kindergarten in Drakhtik, a village in the Hadrut Region."
Sos, which traces its history to the 1700s, is home to 1,040 residents. The
community's main occupations are cattlebreeding and winemaking. The local
agricultural-machinery park, established in recent years in Sos village, has
gone a long way to improve farming productivity, Ghahramanyan said.