BRITISH BUS TO ENCOURAGE SCHOOLCHILDREN TO HAVE POSITIVE PARTICIPATION AND BEAR RESPONSIBILITY IN PUBLIC LIFE

Noyan Tapan
May 03 2007

YEREVAN, MAY 3, NOYAN TAPAN. A project entitled the British Bus
was worked out on the initiative of the Embassy of Great Britain to
Armenia. The goal of the project is to encourage schoolchildren in
the issues of having positive participation in the public life and
undertaking responsibility in them. The Embassy of Great Britain to
Armenia envisaged to allocate about 7 mln drams (20.000 U.S. dollars)
for implementation of the programs of the initiative.

The official start of the British Bus project took place on May 2, at
Yerevan No114 school. Within the framework of the program, the Yerevan
Theater of Changes youth company performed a 20-minute theatrical
performance for schoolchildren in the basis of which educational
themes concerning cleanness of the environment, protection of the
users’ rights, keeping own hygiene, traffic rules and public services
were put.

As Nazaret Seferian, the coordinator of the British Bus project
mentioned, the theatrical performances will be shown till June 10 in
Yerevan schools and yards, and in future, in the case of financing,
the performances will be shown in the marzes of Armenia as well.