PRESS RELEASE
The Armenia Fund
Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
Tel: +(3741) 56 01 06 ext. 105
Fax: +(3741) 52 15 05
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07 November 2007
New School for Khashtarak
Yerevan, 7 November, 2007. The `Hayastan’ All-Armenian Fund, the Fund’s
Germany Affiliate and the Association of Armenian Entrepreneurs in Germany
have finalized the details of Khashtarak community school reconstruction
project as part of the Rural Development Program. The document signed
outlines the project details and the implementation timetable. Thus, the
Fund’s Germany Affiliate `Armenien-Fonds Hayastan-Fonds’ and the Association
of Armenian Entrepreneur in Germany `Armenischer Unternehmer Verein’ will
sponsor the full restoration of Khashtarak village school.
To raise funds for the project, the Association of Armenian Entrepreneurs in
Germany has organized a charity concert in Yerevan’s Opera House. The Fund’s
Germany Affiliate has organized a string of fundraisers including a mailing
action in November invoking to support this project. The project will also
feature prominently in the annual `Phonethon 2007′ to be held November 15-18
in Paris for a number of European countries.
`We definitely want to raise the existing plank for this project’, says
`Hayastan’ All-Armenian Fund Executive Director Vahe Aghabegians. `We need
to eliminate the existing notions about rural schools by taking the
standards and going one step further. No matter where the school is, it
needs to have all the necessary material and human resources to conduct
normal educational process. Rural schools can and must provide best possible
schooling conditions for the children to receive appropriate education.’
The finished school will come complete with spacious classrooms, modern gym,
chemistry, computer labs etc. The school will also receive a gas supply and
new heating system, courtesy of the Fund’s Switzerland Affiliate, `Comité
Suisse du Fonds Armenie’.
Currently, some 251 children attend the school. The renovated school will
have the capacity for around 600 students. This will make it accessible for
children not only from Khashtarak but also the neighboring villages.