ORGANIZATIONS OF ARARAT MARZ ENGAGED IN CHILDREN’S ISSUES JOIN THEIR EFFORTS
Noyan Tapan
May 05 2006
ARTASHAT, ARARAT, MAY 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The Acceptance and Orientation
Center of the Fund for Armenian Relief and the RA Ministry of
Labour and Social Issues with the participation of organizations
engaged in the children’s issues of the Ararat marz held a seminar
on May 3 in Artashat. The goal of the seminar organized within the
framework of the “Attention to Every Child” program financed by the
UN Children’s Fund was to inform specialists working with children
about children’s problems and ommissions existing in the system. As
the Noyan Tapan correspondent was informed by organizers of the event,
the goal of the program is to stregthen ability of the civil society
to protect children’s rights and to assist implementation of programs
concerning children’s issues in Armenia. Seda Arzumanian, the program
head, representatives of the children’s acceptance and orientation
center drew specialists’ attention to issues of protection of the
rights of children left without parents’ care and brought up with
difficulty. It was mentioned during the seminar that today the state
makes an attempt to assist such children, register them, give refuge,
help to stand on their own feet. Keeping children in the center of
constant attention, taking teenagers back of a bad way, giving them
corresponding educationa and bringing up, ways and types of works
with children brought up with difficulties and other themes became a
dispute subject which was touched upon by Directors of Artashat No2,
No3 schools Norik Shahinian, Margush Mirzoyan, Ararat city social
service employee Hovsep Ghazarian, chiefs of Masis, Artashat and
Ararat police departments on teenagers affairs, others.