HUMANITARIAN AID FOR THE NEW SCHOOL YEAR
Nvard Ohanjanian

Azat Artsakh, Nagorno Karabakh Republic [NKR]
30 Aug 2006

On the eve of the new academic year, the International Committee
of the Red Cross distributed aid, 60 schoolbags and stationery,
to the children of the missing soldiers in Karabakh. The ceremony
took place at the office of the Union of Relatives of the Missing
Liberation Soldiers of NKR, the representatives of the NKR office
of the ICRC Edgar Sargissian and Inga Avanessian were present. The
chair of the organization Vera Grigorian said the Red Cross provides
humanitarian aid to the union two or three times a year, which is
distributed to poor families. Besides, every year on the eve of the
academic year the Red Cross gives a surprise to the young children of
the missing soldiers. In the beginning the amount of aid was bigger,
90 schoolbags, but over the past two years it was reduced, and the aid
is distributed to 60 children from the capital and the regions. The
head of the union says they implemented another project with the NKR
Ministry of Social Security. 10 families of the missing soldiers got
11 thousand drams each, and 20 families were given food aid.