HAYASTAN ALL ARMENIAN FUND LAUNCHES TWO PROJECTS IN TAVUSH REGION’S DITAVAN VILLAGE

armradio.am
22.10.2008 12:21

Hayastan All Armenian Fund continues its work in Armenia’s border
communities – villages that today face a whole host of infrastructure
and economic challenges. Focusing on six border communities in
Armenia’s Tavush region, the Fund is working on effectively tackling
these challenges and ensuring the people living in these villages a
better life. As part of this on going initiative, the Fund signaled
the launch of two projects in the community of Ditavan. Thanks to
Argentinean Armenian benefactors Armen and Nadya Ekserciyan, the
village will soon have access to natural gas and a reconstructed
community administration building.

The parallel launch of these two projects is part of the Fund’s
comprehensive strategy of tackling the whole spectrum of challenges
that the people living in the beneficiary villages face today. In this
sense, the gasification of the village was the first on the priority
list for the community where people depended almost solely on the
neighboring woods for a source of heat in the long winter months. This
has brought to a serious damage to the environment of the region. The
lack of access to natural gas has also become a catalyst of emigration
from this tiny border village with people escaping the dread of yet
another cold winter. This year, all this20is about to change – the
community will receive gasification and people will no longer have
to make long trips to the nearby woods just to heat their homes.

The community administration building restoration project is
designed to incorporate the features of the village mayor’s office,
the community center as well as the health care point, becoming a
social and administrative hub of the village. The renovated building
will also be fully refurbished and reequipped.

"There is a lot of excitement in the village," says Seyran Sargsyan,
the mayor of Ditavan. "People are finally starting to feel that
things are changing for the better thanks to the Hayastan Fund,
and our benefactors Armen and Nadya Ekserciyan."

"The completion of these two projects will not solve all the problems
facing Ditavan today but we will instead become a strong and positive
signal for the families living in the village that their community
has a future.

These projects will become the firm base upon which we together with
the people of Ditavan and the support of the benefactors will build
a thriving community," says the Acting Executive Director of the Fund
Ara Vardanyan.