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Hayastan All Armenian Fund
Governmental Buiding 3, Yerevan, RA
Contact: Hasmik Grigoryan
Tel: +(3741) 56 01 06 ext. 105
Fax: +(3741) 52 15 05
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: 30 October, 2008
Hayastan All Armenian Fund Sets in Motion Activities to Raise Funds for
Telethon 2008
Yerevan, October 28, 2008 – With the Hayastan Fund fundraising telethon to
take place on November 27, Thanksgiving Day, the Fund’s executive board has
been implementing a number of promotional activities, including some new
ones, which inform the public of the forthcoming telethon and intend to
increase public participation in varied projects of the Fund. These
improvements include the recently concluded agreement with Haypost CJSC,
press conferences, presentations in educational institutions on the Fund’s
past and current activities, dissemination of flyers and other promotional
materials heralding the forthcoming telethon and the Fund’s current course
of activities through electronic and printed media, as well well-visited
business and service sector establishments.
The agreement with the Haypost CJSC promotes a more accessible mechanism of
donation on the territory of Armenia to start with. The idea is to make
people, including the youth, more aware of the Hayastan Fund’s initiatives
so far and inform of the projects and areas it can tackle. The message is
that if given the support of every single Armenian who can access Haypost
offices across Armenia, the Fund can implement many more vital projects for
us and our generations to come.
This activity will strengthen the idea of small and medium-size donations
during the months proceeding and following the annual telethon. Thanks to it
small donations will no longer be considered a sensitive issue. The
mechanism will encourage donations made by ordinary people who wish to bring
their share into the "big basket". It is believed that many more items of
infrastructure – gas and water lines, school and hospitals, roads in
Armenian and Karabakh will be upgraded, thanks to the support and
partnership of Haypost within this initiative.
In the press conference held on October 27 in the Golden Tulip Hotel,
founders of the Gallery of Funds announced about their wish to donate
proceeds from the closing concert of the Second Return Classic Music
Festival to Telethon 2008. Stephen Prutsmen, piano (USA) and Suren
Bagratuni, celloi (USA), accompanied by the Armenia State Chamber Orchestra
conducted by Aram Gharabekyan made a memorable appearance at the
above-mentioned concert.
Hrant Tokhatyan and Armen Hambartsumanyan, producers of the show "Mea Culpa"
also made a public announcement in the October 28 press conference of their
wish to donate proceeds from shows run on November 3, 4 and 5 to Telethon
2008. Gyumri theatre is among the cultural establishment supporting the Fund’s
fundraising activity; proceeds of the series of William Shakespeare shows
will be directed to Telethon 2008 too.
"Armenians are all over the world, and it is important that, though
scattered around the globe, they get together to make the dream of a
developed and sustainable country happen. I believe people will be attracted
to participate in the Fund’s telethon, to later feel proud of the fact that
they had their input in the newly built or reconstructed infrastructure
supporting a school, a hospital, a monastery or a resident house", says the
Hayastan Fund Acting Executive Director Ara Vardanyan.
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Hayastan All Armenian Fund