HAYASTAN FUND BRINGS WATER TO MARDAKERT
ARMENPRESS
Apr 10 2007
YEREVAN, APRIL 10, ARMENPRESS: The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund said
today it has brought daily water to more than 600 inhabitants of the
frontier Vaghuhas Village of the Martakert Region.
Today Vaghuhas has a 9-km pipeline, 4 water-receiving stations,
and a reservoir with a capacity to store 50m3 of water. The old
internal distribution network has been fully renovated. The project
was implemented with the allocations of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
Argentina local committee and funds raised during the 2005-Telethon.
Vaghuhas and the neighboring villages were almost entirely deprived
of drinking water. The villagers received water a few hours a week
while some 95 families had no water at all. The Vaghuhas water supply
network was built in 1975 and had never been repaired. The pipelines
and internal distribution network had in time decayed and deteriorated.
Water supply issues are issues of great urgency for Nagorno-Karabakh
in general. The Karabakh independence war greatly damaged the border
Region of Martakert and currently its infrastructures need serious
reconstruction.
In the framework of the Artsakh Revival project, launched in 2006, by
the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund, 60 rural communities of the Martakert
Region are gradually coming back to life. With funds raised during the
2005 telethon, along with the Vaghuhas water supply, the All-Armenian
Fund brought natural gas to the village of Aradjadzor. Now the 850
inhabitants of the village enjoy the comfort of having natural gas
in their homes.
In 2006, another project started and is underway to improve the network
supplying water to Martakert, and the villages of Mets Shen, Maghavuz,
and Varnkatagh.
A new 30-km water-main will be connected to the pipelines of these
three villages ensuring drinking water for the population of Martakert
and the three neighboring villages, to a population of overall 5,160
people. The project is carried out with means allocated by the Fund’s
French local committee and donations gathered during the 2005 Telethon.
In 2007, an important water supply renovation project started in
the Vank Village with a population of 1,450. The villagers have
water only a few hours a week. The water spring runs out from the
nearest hills. The existing distribution network was built in 1958
and currently is in desperate conditions.
In Vank Village, a 5-km new pipeline will be constructed and the 7-km
internal distribution network will be restored with the donations
made by the Fund’s local committees of France and East Coast USA,
as well as the St. Sarkis Charitable Fund of Great Britain and the
people of Armenia. Due to the new reservoir, nearly 370 families will
be provided with water.
Beginning from this year, the Artsakh Revival project has started at
full gear in the Hadrut region as well. You can be informed about the
works carried out for construction of gas and water supply networks, as
well as health care institutions and schools in our upcoming reports.
"Hayastan" All Armenian Fund is a non-profit organization established
in 1992 with the aim of facilitating humanitarian assistance and
infrastructure development in Armenia and Nagorno Karabakh. The Fund
has 19 affiliate structures worldwide.
