PRESS RELEASE
Orran
Hasmik Baghdasaryan
6 First Yekmalian Street
Yerevan, Republic of Armenia
Email: hasmik.baghdasaryan@orran.am
www. Orran.am
Date: October 8, 2007

HELPING PEOPLE ACROSS THE OCEAN

A Wells Fargo Bank Vice President and branch manager, Talin Amirian
completed a month of voluntary work at Orran, a center for needy
children and elderly in her homeland, the Republic of Armenia.
Ms. Amirian was a participant in Wells Fargo’s community reinvestment
program whereby the bank employees receive up to four months of
volunteer leave, receiving full pay and benefits. Unlike most
employees who choose a program close to home, Ms. Amirian crossed the
ocean to reach her favorite charity, through which she had been
supporting a needy family by a monthly personal contribution.

Orran is a charitable organization founded in Armenia in 2000. Its
mission is to help vagrant children by providing a hot meal, tutorial,
psychological, social and medical services. It also serves as a soup
kitchen for the elderly who come to the center in the morning when the
children are in school.

Ms. Amirian’s full time job at Orran involved assessing the operations
of the center to make sure that the organization was using its
resources most efficiently. In this connection, Ms. Amirian worked
very closely with the 70 young and 48 elderly beneficiaries. She
visited the destitute families, interviewed the parents, tutored the
children in their studies,

`I had a wonderful month working at Orran and feel very fortunate to
have had the opportunity to spend time with such a great organization.
It was rewarding to learn from its beneficiaries. Each and every one
of them touched my heart and taught me to be a better person. Orran
is a wonderful organization with a noble mission, and it carries out
its vision every single day. Orran has become a part of me, and I
will always cherish this experience’.

Perhaps it was Ms. Amirian’s BA degree in psychology or her boundless
love for children that translated this relationship into such a
beneficial one for both sides.

Tony Turner, CEO of HSBC bank in Armenia and Orran Board member
expressed Orran’s appreciation, `We are very grateful to Wells Fargo
Bank for giving the opportunity to Talin Amirian to provide such an
important service to Orran. We are constantly looking for ways to
spend the contributions of our donors efficiently and to impact as
many children and families as we can. Ms. Amirian’s helpful
suggestions to improve parts of our operations are seriously being
considered and implemented’.

As Ms. Amirian summed up her experience `I believe that the greatest
gift I can give to myself is to give of myself to others’.

For more information on Orran, please visit