WOMEN’S RESOURCE CENTRE OPENS IN ARMENIA’S SYUNIK PROVINCE

armradio.am
03.12.2008 13:21

The Meghri Women’s Resource Centre, supported by the OSCE Office
in Yerevan, opened today in Meghri, in the remote Syunik region
of Armenia.

The Centre will offer local women training, networking opportunities
and advice on starting small businesses, legal questions and tax
matters to help promote their active participation in the region’s
public and private sectors.

"The new resource centre will stimulate women’s participation and
raise their role in economic, public and political life, and thus
contribute to the development of the region as a whole," said Sven
Holdar, the Democratization Officer at the OSCE Office in Yerevan,
at the opening ceremony.

"We believe that the centre will endow the women’s community in Meghri
with a good opportunity to take up joint initiatives and thus achieve
greater success in social and economic life," said Ruzanna Sargsyan,
the President of Meghri Women Resource Centre.

The Centre will be run by the Meghri Women’s Steering Committee,
comprising nine board members. The establishment of the Centre was
proposed by the Meghri Women’s Initiative Group, which was established
last December with the support of the OSCE Office in Yerevan.

Three additional women’s resource centres are expected to open in
the Syunik region in 2009.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress