ANNUAL MEETING OF ARMENIAN ASSISTANCE FUND HELD IN YEREVAN ON JUNE 30 FOR FIRST TIME
Noyan Tapan
Jul 2, 2007
YEREVAN, JULY 2, NOYAN TAPAN. The repaired office of the Armenian
branch of the Armenian Assistance Fund of America will, henceforth,
be named after Gevorg Hovnanian, the Founder-Chairman of the fund,
and his wife, Sirvard Hovnanian. Archbishop Khazhak Parsamian, the
Head of the U.S. Eastern diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church,
and the Chairman of the Armenian Assistance Fund, declared at the June
29 press conference that G. Hovnanian has always taken part in making
and implementing the programs carried out by the Armenian Assistance
Fund. He also mentioned that the charity of G.
Hovnanian is not limited to the one implemented within the framework
of the Armenian Assistance Fund: he is one of the Armenian-Diasporans
who has made donations of millions of dollars to the Hayastan All
Armenian Fund.
Rendy Sabah-Gulian, the Chairman of the Armenian Assistance Fund,
mentioned that since 1989 the fund has allocated 265 million drams
to Aremenia.
According to him, the Armenian Assistance Fund has changed its
human assistance programs into development ones. It is currently
implementing a number of similar perspective programs in a number of
spheres of Armenia.
It was also mentioned that the members of the Council of the
U.S. Eastern diocese and those of the Board of the Fund Directors have
arrived in Armenia for the purpose of organizing the annual meeting
of the Armenian Assistance Fund in Yerevan for the first time. The
delegation has already been to Gyumri and Vanadzor, and had meetings
with the Catholicos of All Armenians Garegin II, the RA President,
and the Prime Minister.
The principle directions of the activities of the Armenian Assistance
Fund for the forthcoming ten years were also mentioned at the annual
meeting, which was held on June 30.