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31 March, 2009
Hayastan All Armenian Fund continues rebuilding water-supply system of
Artsakh’s Berdashen Village
Yerevan, March 31, 2009 – The Hayastan All Armenian Fund announces that
reconstruction of the water-supply system in Berdashen, a village in Nagorno
Karabakh’s Martuni Region, continues on schedule.
The project, worth 210 million drams (U.S. $555,000), is financed jointly by
the Hayastan All Armenian Fund’s Argentinean affiliate and the government of
Nagorno Karabakh. Major support for the initiative, which was launched in
late 2008, was provided by Argentinean-Armenian benefactors Alicia
Vosgerichian de Magarian, Hovsep Magarian, and Varujan Panossian, in honor
of Takvor Magarian and Nvart Terzian Magarian.
Berdashen’s water-supply system, which was built in the 1960s, has long been
in a state of disrepair. Through the Hayastan All Armenian Fund project, the
pump station has been renovated, cancer-causing asbestos pipes have been
replaced with plastic ones, and a 3.6-kilometer pipeline has been built,
already supplying Berdashen with water. Currently the next phase of the
initiative, the building of the internal water-distribution network, is
underway. When this leg of the project is completed by autumn 2009, all
1,500 residents of Berdashen will receive a regular supply of water.
"We are delighted for being able to address many of the urgent issues
affecting the Martuni Region and helping improve the lives of the
population," said Ara Vardanyan, the Hayastan All-Armenian Fund’s acting
executive director. "I think the Berdashen project is a wonderful way to
keep Takvor Magarian’s and Nvart Terzian Magarian’s memory alive."
To date, the Hayastan All Armenian Fund’s Argentinean affiliate has
sponsored some 20 vital projects in Artsakh, mainly in the educational
sphere. The affiliate’s most recent initiatives include the construction, in
2008, of an eight-kilometer water pipeline for Spitakashen, another village
in the Martuni Region.