COAF RENOVATES SCHOOLS IN LERNAGOG, DALARIK AND SHENIK VILLAGES OF ARMAVIR PROVINCE

ARMENPRESS
Aug 17 2007

YEREVAN, AUGUST 17, ARMENPRESS: Following the launch of its Model
Cluster Program, a unique and comprehensive development effort,
the Children of Armenia Fund (COAF) continues to reduce poverty and
bring back hope to rural Armenia by rehabilitating the infrastructure
and improving the economy through a multitude of health, social and
educational projects.

The success of COAF’s completed projects in Karakert, its Model
Village, has inspired the residents of neighboring Argina, Dalarik,
Lernagog, Myasnikyan and Shenik to plan their future with optimism
and zeal.

Just as the Karakert people did a couple of years ago, the Model
Cluster communities have enjoyed upgraded and qualified healthcare,
improved municipal services, and new business opportunities.

The students of Lernagog, Dalarik and Shenik will soon relocate
in their respective renovated and refurnished schools. Over 1,100
children will grow in a safe environment, guided by teachers retrained
in instruction methodology including child centered classrooms,
cooperative learning, thematic teaching, lesson planning, and other
related topics.

First in line is the Grand Opening of the Lernagog School, to be
held on August 27th. The superior quality of this reconstruction
project speaks for COAF’s standards of excellence. The contractor,
Kanaka CJSC, is a Vanadzor-based construction firm highly qualified in
school reconstruction and renowned for product quality and work ethics.

The Lernagog School will accommodate 250 students and staff in heated
classrooms, laboratories, library, music room, performance hall,
and gymnasium.

During a visit to the school reconstruction site last month, the
principal benefactors of this school, Daniel and Henry Sahakians
expressed their excitement in these words ? "We had not imagined
the dilapidated building we saw a year ago would transform to this
beautiful edifice. We surely put our money in the right place." Next
in line is the completion of the Karakert Community Center and Public
Park, plus the Dalarik and Shenik schools.