CENTER FOR ESTIMATION OF CHILDREN HAVING SPECIAL NEEDS TO BE FOUNDED IN YEREVAN SOON

Noyan Tapan
Dec 05 2006

YEREVAN, DECEMBER 5, NOYAN TAPAN. The Photo Exhibition under the title
"All of us are special, everyone is unique" opened on December 4 at
the History Museum of the city of Yerevan is dedicated to December
3 – International Day of Disabled Persons. More than six dozens of
photos taken by children from Yerevan, Gyumri and other regions of
Armenia are presented at the exhibition. They illustrate a number
of disability-related issues. The organizers of the exhibition are
the World Vision Armenia charity public organization, the UNICEF and
Yerevan Mayor’s Office. As Kamo Areyan, the Deputy Mayor of Yerevan
mentioned, the goal of the event is invalids’ integration in the
society. In his words, a center for estimation of children having
special needs will be founded in Armenia for the first time. It will
function under the subjection of the Yerevan Mayor’s Office. Hayk
Martirosian, the World Vision Armenia representative mentioned
that the exhibition is a part of the public propaganda aimed to
protection of rights of children with special needs. He stated that
the organization implements Child Protection program the main goal
of which is to create active mechanisms for protection of those rights.