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    PRESS RELEASE
    THE PAROS FOUNDATION
    918 Parker Street, Suite A14
    Berkeley, CA 94710
    Contact: Peter Abajian
    Email: [email protected]
    Web: http://www.parosfoundation.org/
    Tel: US 310-400-9061
    Armenia: (093) 99-80-99 From US dial 011-374-93-99-80-99



    The Manana Youth Center's Animation Studio is working on an important
    project that needs your help to be completed. The Sand Animals Film
    Series is a project that uses creative animation to produce films
    featuring each letter of the Armenian alphabet. Using the
    crowd-funding platform Indiegogo.com, Manana has already reached more
    than 25% of its $8,000 funding goal for this project. Please consider
    supporting this effort today and help promote both the Armenian
    language and the intellectual development of Manana's animation
    students with your tax-deductible contribution today.

    About Manana Youth Center and the Manana Animation Studio The Manana
    Animation Studio is an award-winning studio that provides youth with
    high-quality training in the production of animated films and
    cartoons. It is part of Manana Youth Center
    [http://www.mananayouth.org/], a cutting-edge multimedia training
    organization that works to develop the intellectual and creative
    talents of young people between the ages of 7-16 in Armenia. The
    Manana Youth Center was founded in 1995, and seeks to create an
    environment for the overall creative and intellectual development of
    children. Students are educated as artists and critical thinkers, and
    through classes at Manana Youth Center, they become socially minded
    citizens speaking for their generation. The Sand Animals Film
    Series. The Sand Animals project embodies Manana Youth Center's
    mission of providing youth with quality educational programming in
    art, new media and technology.

    The Sand Animals has two primary goals:

    =80¢ Produce a visually engaging education tool to teach children the
    Armenian alphabet.

    =80¢ Teach Manana Youth Center's students to create animated films.

    Manana's animation students will storyboard each Sand Animals episode,
    create the animations, and edit the short films. Through this process,
    they will become adept at sand animation techniques. Each episode will
    be around 40 seconds, and will introduce children to a different
    letter of the Armenian alphabet and to different kinds of animals.

    Manana Animation Studio students are currently working on the first
    episode, which introduces viewers to the letter " Ô± Õ¡ " (A a) of the
    Armenian alphabet, and to the animal "Ô±Õ=90Õ=8B" ("Arj", which means
    "bear").

    The Impact Manana Animation Studio students practice sand animation
    techniques.

    The educational impact of the Sand Animals is two-fold: teach children
    the Armenian alphabet, and teach Manana Youth Center's students to
    create animated shorts!

    With the Sand Animals, Manana Youth Center's students will promote the
    rich heritage of the Armenian language through modern media.

    The finished project will be distributed widely. The Sand Animals will
    be placed in libraries and schools throughout Armenia, will be given
    to TV channels for broadcasting, and will be distributed to Armenian
    pre-schools, kindergartens and elementary schools in the diaspora.

    The Sand Animals will be a valuable resource for children both within
    and outside of Armenia.

    What Your Contribution Will Fund

    Your support of the Sand Animals film series will go towards:

    Camera upgrades and 2 computers that will allow our students to
    produce a finished project at the highest possible quality. New
    animation software to replace outdated programs. Studio lights for use
    in the production of the Sand Animals. Pre-production materials for
    scripting, storyboarding, and the creation of characters for the Sand
    Animals. Creating Sand Animals DVDs for distribution upon completion
    of the project.

    If we don't reach our funding goal, we will make as many episodes as
    possible, while applying for other sources of financial support to
    complete the Sand Animals.



    --
    The Paros Foundation [http://www.paros-foundation.org/index.html], a
    U.S. based 501(c)(3) certified nonprofit that develops high quality
    high integrity non-governmental organizations in Armenia, is acting as
    the fiscal sponsor for this campaign.

    Formally launched in 2006, The Paros Foundation supports six exemplary
    local NGOs in Armenia with contributions of quality rent-free program
    space, operating funds and human resource support. To honor the
    upcoming centennial of the Armenian Genocide, The Paros Foundation
    launched the Paros 100 for 100 Projects for Prosperity in October of
    2011. With an aggressive goal of identifying, vetting, fundraising
    for and ultimately implementing 100 special projects, The Paros
    Foundation and its staff in Armenia and the United States are quickly
    earning a reputation as the "go to" organization to oversee small and
    medium-sized project implementation in Armenia. For more information
    and to get involved visit www.parosfoundation.org

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