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GLENDALE TO HOST ART SHOW FUNDRAISER IN AID OF HALO TRUST
September 19, 2013 - 10:50 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An art show fundraiser will take place Saturday,
Sept 28, in aid of the HALO Trust, on the rooftop of the Hollywood
Production Center in Glendale, CA.
The works of Hermine Demirtshyan, Voskan Galstian, Emily Halpern,
Koko Hovaguimian, Anthony Miserendino, Argishti Musakhanyan,
Arshak Nazarian, Kat Shoa, and Zareh will be displayed. Attendees
will have the opportunity to purchase art from which a portion will
be allocated to the HALO Trust. The evening will include food and
beverage, including music provided by the Snake Charmer Ensemble.
The HALO Trust is the oldest and largest non-profit, non-political
organization in the world that specializes in humanitarian land mine
clearance, providing a better quality of life for people whose routine
activities are curtailed due to the risk of land mine detonation.
The HALO Trust was founded in Scotland in 1988, with regional offices
in Washington DC and San Francisco, which is registered as a charity
in the United Kingdom and a non-profit in the United States.
The focus of this event is to raise money for Nagorno Karabakh
(Artsakh) where HALO first became involved in 1995 after the war
with Azerbaijan. Deminers were trained for a year and slowly the HALO
Trust began to expand its program in the region, with the launch of
the full program in 2000. Through March 2013, there are 144 minefields
remaining that are in need of clearance.
The organizers of the event are Aline Tavlian and Nare Garibyan,
two Glendale residents who were inspired to raise funds for the HALO
Trust after, Gala Danilova, the Director of Finance of the HALO
Trust program in Nagorno Karabakh presented the demining work the
organization has achieved in that region. She will be speaking at
the fundraiser, traveling all the way from Artsakh.
Since 2000 HALO has provided the only large-scale mine clearance
capacity in Nagorno Karabakh and over the last 10 years HALO has
cleared over 236 square kilometers of contaminated land and returned
it to previously impacted communities. By mid-2010, HALO had found and
destroyed in Karabakh over 10,000 landmines, 10,000 cluster munitions
and 45,000 other explosive items.
HALO has reported as cleared nearly 80% of minefields and about 70%
of the area contaminated by cluster munitions in Karabakh. The NGO
believes the remaining areas can be cleared within the next five years
but this timeframe depends on the continued availability of donor
funds, which are on a downward slump. Without funding, HALO warns,
the removal of all the minefields and cluster munitions will take
longer, leaving impoverished rural communities blighted by mines and
cluster munitions for years to come.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/170180/
September 19, 2013 - 10:50 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - An art show fundraiser will take place Saturday,
Sept 28, in aid of the HALO Trust, on the rooftop of the Hollywood
Production Center in Glendale, CA.
The works of Hermine Demirtshyan, Voskan Galstian, Emily Halpern,
Koko Hovaguimian, Anthony Miserendino, Argishti Musakhanyan,
Arshak Nazarian, Kat Shoa, and Zareh will be displayed. Attendees
will have the opportunity to purchase art from which a portion will
be allocated to the HALO Trust. The evening will include food and
beverage, including music provided by the Snake Charmer Ensemble.
The HALO Trust is the oldest and largest non-profit, non-political
organization in the world that specializes in humanitarian land mine
clearance, providing a better quality of life for people whose routine
activities are curtailed due to the risk of land mine detonation.
The HALO Trust was founded in Scotland in 1988, with regional offices
in Washington DC and San Francisco, which is registered as a charity
in the United Kingdom and a non-profit in the United States.
The focus of this event is to raise money for Nagorno Karabakh
(Artsakh) where HALO first became involved in 1995 after the war
with Azerbaijan. Deminers were trained for a year and slowly the HALO
Trust began to expand its program in the region, with the launch of
the full program in 2000. Through March 2013, there are 144 minefields
remaining that are in need of clearance.
The organizers of the event are Aline Tavlian and Nare Garibyan,
two Glendale residents who were inspired to raise funds for the HALO
Trust after, Gala Danilova, the Director of Finance of the HALO
Trust program in Nagorno Karabakh presented the demining work the
organization has achieved in that region. She will be speaking at
the fundraiser, traveling all the way from Artsakh.
Since 2000 HALO has provided the only large-scale mine clearance
capacity in Nagorno Karabakh and over the last 10 years HALO has
cleared over 236 square kilometers of contaminated land and returned
it to previously impacted communities. By mid-2010, HALO had found and
destroyed in Karabakh over 10,000 landmines, 10,000 cluster munitions
and 45,000 other explosive items.
HALO has reported as cleared nearly 80% of minefields and about 70%
of the area contaminated by cluster munitions in Karabakh. The NGO
believes the remaining areas can be cleared within the next five years
but this timeframe depends on the continued availability of donor
funds, which are on a downward slump. Without funding, HALO warns,
the removal of all the minefields and cluster munitions will take
longer, leaving impoverished rural communities blighted by mines and
cluster munitions for years to come.
http://www.panarmenian.net/eng/news/170180/