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Regional Eco-Library: Empowering Youth through the Seeds of Knowledge.
Call for Contributions – Plant a Seed of Knowledge!
On the 1st of September, 2007 the regional eco-library opened its doors in
the town of Vanadzor, Lori Marz of Armenia. The eco-library offers to the
public a growing collection of materials inviting students, researchers,
schoolchildren and just any interested individual to enrich his or her
knowledge in the fields of Environmental Science, Forestry and Natural
Resource Management.
The eco-library is already open to contributions and donations! We welcome
contributions in different forms from cash to books, journals, magazines,
and other materials in the field of Environmental Science! There is no lower
limit to a possible contribution as every dram counts for this nascent
library.
For example:
2000 drams will buy as second-hand book on Geobotanics.
5000 drams will buy a newly published text-book on Ecological Monitoring.
50,000 drams will help to equip the library with additional shelves for new
acquisitions.
250, 000 drams will buy a photo-copying machine to distribute the library
materials as wide as possible.
336, 000 drams will buy a computer for the eco-library.
How to Contribute:
To donate a book, a journal, or other material or equipment please either
leave it to the office of Environmental Conservation and Research Center,
American University of Armenia (40 Baghramyan Ave.) or call us at 091638571
and we will come and collect the materials.
For cash donations, please, call us again at 091638571.
Project Background:
The project has been made possible through seed funding received from the
"Be The Change!", a youth-led sustainable development Action Programme
aligned with the < =126>
Millennium Development Goals and aims to empower young people to "be the
change they want to see in the world."(Mahatma Gandhi). The implementation
of the project has been generously supported by the Environmental
Conservation and Research Center of the American University of Armenia and
Vanadzor’s Gugark Forestry Agency. The library offers a growing collection
of books, articles, magazines, journals, encyclopedias, and dictionaries
from various fields of Environmental Science/Ecology, Forestry, Biology,
Botany, Zoology, Ornithology, and other.
Current Organization Donors:
* The Environmental Conservation and Research Center
* Broncoway LLC
* UNDP office in Szentendre, Hungary
For further information, please, contact Ms. Alla Berberyan – the Project
Manager at <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected], mob. 091638571.
Eco-Library Address: Busabanakan str.1, Vanadzor, Lori marz, Republic of
Armenia.
Tel.: 0322-2-21-50