TAVUSH REGION’S VILLAGE OF DITAVAN TO HAVE NATURAL GAS AND RECONSTRUCTED COMMUNAL ADMINISTRATIVE BUILDING THANKS TO ARGENTINEAN ARMENIAN BENEFACTORS

Noyan Tapan
Oct 22, 2008

YEREVAN, OCTOBER 22, ARMENIANS TODAY – NOYAN TAPAN. The Hayastan All
Armenian Fund continues its work in Armenia’s border communities and
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.

In his sense, the gasification 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.

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.