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September 28, 2006 Thursday 3:25 PM GMT
Jane Fonda to Deliver Keynote Address at 2006 COAF ‘Save a
Generation’ Awards Dinner
NEW YORK
The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) is pleased to announce that Jane
Fonda, Oscar-winning actress and humanitarian, will deliver the
keynote address at the annual Save a Generation awards dinner, to be
held Friday, October 20, 2006, at Cipriani 42 Street in New York.
COAF will honor outstanding individual and corporate leaders, and
celebrate the success of COAFs unique formula for poverty alleviation
through village revitalization, education, health care and
development. Emmy award winner Andrea Martin will serve as Master of
Ceremonies and Ms. Fonda will appear along with honoree George
Pagoumian, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Napco, LLP.
In addition, COAF will recognize Pierre Michel Fattouche of VivaCell
and Eduardo Eurnekian of Zvartnots International Airport and Tierras
de Armenia as two organizational leaders fighting poverty in Armenia
through long-term economic development. Actress and humanitarian Jane
Fonda has enjoyed tremendous success as a stage and screen actress in
such well known films as Coming Home with much of her work devoted to
the program she founded in 1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent
Pregnancy Prevention (G-CAPP). She chairs this statewide effort to
reduce the high rates of adolescent pregnancy in Georgia through
community, youth and family development, sustainable economic
development and legislative advocacy. In 1994, Ms. Fonda was named
Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Population Fund. She is
also a member of the Women & Foreign Policy Advisory Committee of the
Council on Foreign Relations, the Grady Health System Board of
Visitors, the Screen Actors Guild Advisory Board, the Advisory Board
of the Native American Rights Fund, and sits on the V-Counsel of
V-Day: Until the Violence Stops. In May 2005, Random House published
Ms. Fondas memoirs, The New York Times , her first film in 15 years,
also reached number one at the box office, making Ms. Fonda the first
person to simultaneously have a number one book and number one movie.
Founded in 2000, the Children of Armenia Fund is an independent,
nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (501(c)(3)). COAF seeks to
reverse the impoverished conditions affecting significant numbers of
Armenias villages and implementing projects that provide immediate
and sustainable benefits to children and youth. For further
information, please visit .
The Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) is pleased to announce that Jane
Fonda, Oscar(R)-winning actress and humanitarian, will deliver the
keynote address at the annual "Save a Generation" awards dinner, to
be held Friday, October 20, 2006, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New
York. COAF will honor outstanding individual and corporate leaders,
and celebrate the success of COAF’s unique formula for poverty
alleviation through village revitalization, education, health care
and development.
Emmy(R) and Tony(R) award winner Andrea Martin will serve as Master
of Ceremonies and Ms. Fonda will appear along with honoree George
Pagoumian, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Napco, LLP. In
addition, COAF will recognize Pierre Michel Fattouche of VivaCell and
Eduardo Eurnekian of Zvartnots International Airport and Tierras de
Armenia as two organizational leaders fighting poverty in Armenia
through long-term economic development.
Actress and humanitarian Jane Fonda has enjoyed tremendous success as
a stage and screen actress in such well known films as Klute and
Coming Home. Ms. Fonda now focuses her time on activism and social
change – with much of her work devoted to the program she founded in
1995, the Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Pregnancy Prevention
(G-CAPP). She chairs this statewide effort to reduce the high rates
of adolescent pregnancy in Georgia through community, youth and
family development, sustainable economic development and legislative
advocacy.
In 1994, Ms. Fonda was named Goodwill Ambassador for the United
Nations Population Fund. She is also a member of the Women & Foreign
Policy Advisory Committee of the Council on Foreign Relations, the
Grady Health System Board of Visitors, the Screen Actors Guild
Advisory Board, the Advisory Board of the Native American Rights
Fund, and sits on the V-Counsel of V-Day: Until the Violence Stops.
In May 2005, Random House published Ms. Fonda’s memoirs, My Life So
Far, which secured a first-place position on The New York Times
Bestseller list. That same spring Monster-in-Law, her first film in
15 years, also reached number one at the box office, making Ms. Fonda
the first person to simultaneously have a number one book and number
one movie.
About COAF
Founded in 2000, the Children of Armenia Fund is an independent,
nonprofit, nongovernmental organization (501(c)(3)). COAF seeks to
reverse the impoverished conditions affecting significant numbers of
Armenia’s children by revitalizing Armenia’s villages and
implementing projects that provide immediate and sustainable benefits
to children and youth. For further information, please visit
CONTACT: Sunny Uberoi, 212-994-8206Anna Sargsyan,
212-994-8234CONTACT: Sunny Uberoi, 212-994-8206
suberoi@antigenics.com or Anna Sargsyan, 212-994-8234
asargsyan@coafkids.org