ARTSAKH REBIRTH: 3 NEW SCHOOLS AND A RENOVATED KINDERGARTEN FOR MARDAKERT

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Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
[01:17 pm] 20 April, 2007

Yerevan, Apr. 20, 2007: Recently the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund
completed 2 projects in Mardakert. Now the village of Madaghis has a
new school and Haterk has a renovated kindergarten. By September 2007,
school construction in villages of Kochoghot and Verin Horatagh will
be completed too.

Having a school building was central for the village of Madaghis,
where up till now classes were held in container houses. With the
financial assistance of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Toronto
affiliate, a donation of 264 thousand US dollars (104 million AMD),
a three-floor school with adjacent sanitary units and a boiler house
was constructed to accommodate 120 students.

A similar three-floor building will open its doors for the
schoolchildren of Kochoghot next September.

Currently a run-down building with no heating, adapted to minimal
schooling needs serves the village as a school. On funding received
from the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund France affiliate the first two
floors and the basement of the school building is completed; the
attic is sill under construction.

The construction of the school building in Verin Horatagh is also
underway. A new, three-floor building will soon replace the half-ruined
village school built in the 1930s. The project is financed by the
Toronto affiliate of the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund.

The France affiliate of the Fund will furnish the Kochghout school
and in collaboration with the St. Etienne city hall has donated
11.5 million AMD (29.4 USD) worth of furniture and sport facilities
equipment to the Haterk school. The Hayastan All-Armenian Fund Toronto
affiliate has furnished the newly built Madaghis school and will soon
furnish the Verin Horatagh school. The Mardakert school number 1 has
also been furnished due to various donations from France.

Therefore, education in Hadrut is improving due to the Artsakh
Rebirth imitative.